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Do you remember Keith Dewitt?
Posted on: November 7, 2016 at 15:20:00 CT
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He was a 20 year old junior in high school, and had to sit out his final high school season or else he would have started losing college eligibility for being too old:
Charis Prep played its final game of the fall semester Dec. 19, one day before Dewitt - behind in school because of all the turmoil in his life growing up - celebrated his 21st birthday. Peralta said it was shortly after that time that Missouri coaches dialed his number to inquire if he knew about an NCAA age rule.
"I wasn't aware of it, and they weren't either," Peralta said of the MU coaches. "The NCAA called Missouri to tell them that once a kid turns 21, if he plays in any kind of basketball, even church league, where they keep individual scoring, they lose a year of eligibility, even if it's just one game."
Dewitt, with such a seemingly bright basketball future ahead of him, then ended his prep career with a semester remaining before graduation.
Charis Prep played its final game of the fall semester Dec. 19, one day before Dewitt - behind in school because of all the turmoil in his life growing up - celebrated his 21st birthday. Peralta said it was shortly after that time that Missouri coaches dialed his number to inquire if he knew about an NCAA age rule.
"I wasn't aware of it, and they weren't either," Peralta said of the MU coaches. "The NCAA called Missouri to tell them that once a kid turns 21, if he plays in any kind of basketball, even church league, where they keep individual scoring, they lose a year of eligibility, even if it's just one game."
Dewitt, with such a seemingly bright basketball future ahead of him, then ended his prep career with a semester remaining before graduation.
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Do you remember Keith Dewitt? - FIJItiger MU - 11/7 15:20:00