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imsoblue
09-11-2012, 02:38 PM
By By Luke Winn, SI.com
Harvard senior co-captain Kyle Casey plans to withdraw from school and is likely to miss the entire 2012-13 season after being implicated in a widespread academic cheating scandal, multiple sources told SI.com. With Harvard's fall registration deadline looming Tuesday, Casey faced the decision of whether to withdraw in order to attempt to preserve his final year of eligibility.

The Crimson's other co-captain, senior guard Brandyn Curry, has also been implicated in the scandal, but has yet to decide on whether to withdraw, his father, Herman Curry, told SI.com on Tuesday.

On Aug. 30, Harvard College announced in a letter that its administrative board was investigating allegations that approximately 125 undergraduates "may have committed acts of academic dishonesty, ranging from inappropriate collaboration to outright plagiarism, on a take-home final exam." The exam was for Government 1310: Introduction to Congress, a spring 2012 class with an enrollment of 279. Sources said that Casey, Curry and one additional men's basketball player are among a group of athletes and non-athletes whose cases are pending review. They are facing charges of academic dishonesty that could carry a one-year suspension from school.

Neither Harvard coach Tommy Amaker nor Casey returned calls or messages from SI requesting comment on Monday night. According to sources, Casey had the option of enrolling for the fall 2012 semester and fighting the allegations, but risked losing his final season of Ivy League eligibility if the administrative board did not rule in his favor. By withdrawing for two semesters, the all-Ivy League forward is leaving the door open for re-admission to Harvard -- and a return to the basketball team -- in 2013-14 once his case is settled. This March, with Casey averaging a team-high 11.4 points per game, the Amaker-led Crimson won their first-ever Ivy League title and reached their first NCAA tournament since 1946.

In an Aug. 31 story in the New York Times, Harvard's dean of undergraduate education, Jay Harris, said that the alleged cheating scandal is "unprecedented in its scope and magnitude." The Harvard Crimson reported this week that the school's football team was bracing for potential lineup changes due to players being implicated in the scandal.

Harvard, which has won at least 20 games in each of Amaker's past three seasons -- including a 26-5 record in 2011-12 -- was the early favorite to repeat as Ivy League champion next season. Casey, a former two-star recruit from Medway, Mass., who also considered attending Stanford and Vanderbilt, was the Crimson's top returning scorer and rebounder, but it appears that his college career has been put on hold.
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Doc
09-11-2012, 06:39 PM
Too bad he didn't attend UNC-CH. They don't give squat about academic integrity.

DanISSELisdaman
09-11-2012, 10:05 PM
This guy would make a good investigator for the NCAA.

Krank
09-11-2012, 10:37 PM
Too bad he didn't attend UNC-CH. They don't give squat about academic integrity.

HA!

True dat, but also, doncha just "love" the irony of a Duke guy bringing down the academic integrity at an Ivy League school?

The more I hear about BOTH the Duke and UNC scandals and how little APPROPRIATE action is happening both within each program AND the NCAA, the more the feeling I have held for years seems true... the Duke/UNC rivalry is NOT as "crazy" as the media and fans make it out to be... those two RELY on each other to stay at the top by all means necessary.

That is why there has been, IMO, relatively little out of EACH camp's famous alumni (in the media and elsewhere) that has been critical of the other. I know I am not the only one who has noticed that.