12 - The Michigan Daily - Monday, June 10, 2002
Cagers' recruit still needs to pass test to play for Blue,
By Bob Hunt coach this past season at Bridgton Academy in stuff is down on paper and you're reading ment in the Virgin Islands during Thanksgiv-
Daily Sports Editor Maine. "But unfortunately, with that language paragraphs of it, then it becomes much more ing Break from Nov. 22-24The eight-team
barrier, he has taken that test a couple times confusing." field will include Toledo, Kansas State, Vir-
If only Amadou Ba could take the Scholastic (and has struggled)." Last summer Kelly Whitney and JaQuan ginia Tech, Washington State, Brigham Young,
Aptitude Test in French. Ba went to school as an exchange student in Hart, two of Michigan's four recruits last sea- St. Bonaventure and Hampton.
The 6-foot-10 basketball recruit from Mau- Alabama before attending Bridgton this past son, were declared academically ineligible and Of the field, just St. Bonaventure and
ritania in Africa has yet to receive the mini- school year. He has taken the Test of English did not attend Michigan. But English was their Brigham Young finished in the top 100 of the
mum score on either the as a Foreign Language (TOEFL), which many native language. RPI last season. Michigan finished No. 142.
SAT or American College BASKETBALL international students use to get into college, Ba will find out the results of the tests - The Wolverines will also be playing Vander-
Testing Assessment in order Ntbok and has scored well, but the NCAA does not and his fate as a member of the Wolverines - bilt at Crisler Arena and Duke at Camero
to be eligible to play for the Noteook accept the TOEFL in determining eligibility. in the next couple weeks. Indoor Stadium in Durham, NC.
Wolverines next season. Ba "It's a travesty what they do with interna- "I think it will be close," Lesure said. "But « BAILEY TO PLAY IN AFRICA: Sophomore for-
scored a 760 on the May 1 SAT, which is 60 tional guys," Lesure said. we'll see." ward Chuck Bailey will participate in an
points short of the necessary score of 820. Ba took the SAT on June 1 and the ACT on NOTHING LIKE PARADISE: While the Michigan eight-day Athletes in Action tour in the west
Ba speaks five different languages, but June 8 and is hopeful that one of his scores basketball schedule will not be announced African country of Ivory Coast from July 14-
because he has just been in the United States will make him eligible. until late July or early August, the Wolverines 24. Bailey, along with seven other Division I
for just two years, he has trouble with written "It's very easy for these guys to pick up the already have some dates penciled in their players, will play games against local teams,
English. spoken word," Lesure said. "(Ba) can talk bet- schedule. Michigan has already accepted an hold youth basketball clinics and serve at
"He's a bright kid," said Whit Lesure, Ba's ter than I can. But all of a sudden when that invitation to play at the Paradise Jam tourna- orphanages.
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