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By Zach Ewing
The Maneater via U-wire
University of Missouri
Missouri suspends guard after plea
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Ricky Clemons, a junior point guard on Missouri's men's basketball team, pleaded guilty Monday to misdemeanor charges of third-degree assault and false imprisonment, leading the athletics department to suspend him for next season.
"In response to today's decision, Ricky Clemons has been suspended for one year from competition, effective for the 2003-04 season," coach Quin Snyder said in a press release. "Ricky will need to meet certain academic and personal criteria which will be evaluated throughout the year."
Clemons was arrested in January on suspicion of choking his girlfriend and preventing her
He was suspended from the team for one game but was reinstated when Snyder and Athletics Director Mike Alden decided to wait for a ruling from the court before taking action.
He spent several hours in jail, missing the Oklahoma State game, before being released on bail.
from leaving his apartment.
"As we have maintained all along, we would await the outcome of the judicial process until taking further action in this situation," Snyder said in the statement.
Clemons was originally charged with second-degree assault, a felony.
He pled guilty to two misdemeanor charges, so the felony charge was dropped.
Boone County Prosecutor Kevin Crane said he was not surprised by Clemons' decision
to accept the deal his office offered.
"I never know what a defendant's going to do," Crane said.
Crane said he would seek 90 days in jail for the false imprisonment crime.
Clemons is due back in court for sentencing on June 23.
Clemons' Attorney Wally Bley declined to comment.
In another statement, Alden said Clemons would keep his scholarship for next year. Clemons would have one year of eligibility still available after the suspension is over.
For the third-degree assault crime, Crane said he would push for a two-year probationary period immediately following the 90-day sentence, which, if violated, would result in an extra year in prison.
The probation would include 100 hours of community service. These two convictions would permanently be on Clemons' criminal record.
"The idea is, if the judge follows my recommendation, after he gets done doing three months, he gets two years probation," Crane said. "If he violates that probation, he gets an extra year."
"We will honor Ricky's scholarship next year, provided he continues to progress toward his degree and meets his academic and social responsibilities," Alden said in the statement. "I believe that we have taken fair actions at every point during this difficult process, and now we're following through with what we believe to be appropriate measures."
Clemons was third on the team in scoring last season with 14.2 points per game and led the team in steals with 49.
Symons is Tech's new quarterback
By Kyle Clark
By Lynn Clark
University Daily via U-wire
Texas Tech University
LUBBOCK, Texas — B.J. Symons stepped into the role of starting quarterback at Texas Tech's annual Red and Black Game, and after throwing 19 completions for 218 yards and two touchdowns, he said he did not care about the expectations building for next season.
Symons will have one season of opportunity in the No.1 role after backing up Kliff Kingsbury
for the last three seasons.
Symons got his first score of the game on a 10-yard touchdown pass to Nehemiiah Glover. He later connected with receiver Carlos Francis on a fade into the corner of the end zone for his second touchdown of the game.
Francis, who finished the game with three catches for 51 yards and a touchdown, said Symons established himself as the man leading the Tech attack.
The starting receiving group
finished with 182 yards in the game, seeing time against several defensive units, which were being alternated each series.
The spring game was organized as an offense-againstdefense setup instead of a game between two teams with offensive and defensive players because of a lack of healthy offensive lineman.
On the defensive side of the ball, Tech finished with three sacks, a safety and an interception.
The game was the first in new defensive coordinator Lyle Seten
eich's defensive system, and players on both sides of the ball said the defense was much more physical.
Leach said Tech tried to not show as much defensively to maintain some secrecy but said he was pleased with how the defense had developed in the spring.
Tech finished spring football yesterday with its last practice of the season at 3 p.m. The Raiders will return to Jones SBC Stadium to play August 30 in the season opener against SMU.
Possible Self successor has Illinois ties
By Frank Rusnak
DEKALB, Ill. — Rob Judson had some good times at Illinois.
By Frank Rusnak
Northern Star via U-wire
Northern Illinois University
With the head coaching job open at Illinois, if Judson wants the position, he isn't letting on.
While Judson has been mentioned by ESPN's Andy Katz as a possible replacement, he said Illinois Athletics Director Ron Guenther had not contacted him since the position opened.
On the road recruiting all of Monday, Judson avoided directly answering if he'd take the Illinois job, but his days in Champaign, Ill., have been some of his most memorable.
The current Northern Illinois basketball coach was a studentathlete at Illinois from 1976 to 1980.
The 45-year-old Judson met his wife, the former Kim McCarty, in college.
He was a proud member of Alpha Tau Omega and was a star
on the hardwood.
A four-year varsity player for the Illini, he started a couple of games his freshman year, eight or nine his sophomore season and gradually more his junior and senior years.
He has guarded Michigan State's Earvin "Magic" Johnson, among other future NBA superstars.
When he left the central Illinois campus, he set the Illinois career free-throw percentage record with a .875 mark.
He returned to Illinois for five
years, 1996-2001, as an assistant coach and left with a .659 winning percentage.
Passed up for the head coaching job when Lon Krueger left to take the Atlanta Hawks position in 2000, Judson stuck around for a year with Bill Self at the helm before coming to Northern Illinois.
While Judson said he hadn't applied for the job, he added that "you don't really apply for a Big Ten school like Illinois," because the administration sought its possible candidates.
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