Concordia University Basketball Will Not Play Remaining Conference Games

Concordia University Basketball Will Not Play Remaining Conference Games

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Chicago (CBS) — The Concordia University men’s basketball team will not play the remaining conference games, effectively ending the team’s competitive season.

CBS 2’s Sabrina Franza has spoken to the parent of one of the players who still hasn’t been cleared to play after he and five other players were hospitalized a few weeks ago.

His father wasn’t surprised to hear the news, but it wasn’t exactly what he wanted to hear.

Ryan Colicotte said, “Everything is sass. I was just told.”

Colicotte caught up with CBS 2 on Saturday night by phone, having just finished a Zoom meeting for players and their families to decide what to do with the rest of Concordia’s basketball season.

“The season is almost over,” said Ryan Corricott.

Six players, including Ryan’s son, were hospitalized on Jan. 6 after a particularly grueling team workout.

A subsequent internal investigation revealed that the player had been hospitalized with rhabdomyolysis caused by muscle damage from over-exercise.

“He’s perfectly fine, which means he’s probably not 100% yet. He can’t come back yet,” he said.

An investigation determined that the intensity of practice was the result of some players breaking the curfew two days earlier, but said it was not a haze act.

As a result, the team had to abandon multiple games. The NCAA stepped in and banned them from playing the rest of the conference games as a result of recent events.

Ryan Baker wants his son to be allowed to play and extended for another year because of what’s going on.

He is not yet cleared to play this year.

The team is considering playing tough noncronfrontations.

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