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Destiny’s Jerrelle Deberry has committed to play college basketball for the Green Bay Phoenix men’s basketball program.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that Deberry gave Green Bay an oral commitment on Tuesday night.
Deberry averaged 25.3 points, 11.2 rebounds and 3 assists for the Division 4-school last season.
The investigator that spent the last month interviewing current and former UW-
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Green Bay players and staff members with regards to the allegations against the school’s men’s basketball coach Brian Wardle, has handed his findings over to University Chancellor Thomas Harden.
According to a statement released by the school, “Before the report and any decision are released to the public, chancellor Harden is planning to meet with coach Wardle. The Chancellor said the University will have no further comment until the report is made public.”
The investigation centered around allegations of mistreatment by former player Ryan Bross.
Bross told the Green Bay Press Gazette that Wardle ridiculed him with vulgar language after he defecated in his shorts during a preseason training exercise, told him he would be a better player if he had sex with a girl he was interested in dating and refused to allow him to take classes for his major.
Chancellor Tom Harden said this morning that the University will publicly release the investigator’s report as soon as it is legally permissible to do so.
Toronto native Tevin Findlay has officially joined the Green Bay men’s basketball recruiting Class of 2013, as the versatile combo guard signed a National Letter of Intent to play for the Phoenix. The signing comes despite coach Brian Wardle being investigated for allegations of mistreatment of players.
Findlay is the third signee in the Green Bay recruiting class that will be joining the program next fall. He joins Little Chute high school teammates Turner Botz and Kenneth Lowe who both signed during the early signing period in November.
Findlay spent the 2012-13 season at IMG academy, a postgraduate prep school in Bradenton, Florida. Findlay averaged 15 points, six assists, five rebounds and three steals per game while helping IMG to more than 20 wins.
The Green Bay Phoenix men’s basketball team will appear in the 2013 Great Alaska Shootout from Nov. 27-30 at Sullivan Arena. The eight-team field in the 36th annual event also includes tournament host Alaska Anchorage, Harvard, TCU, Denver, Indiana State, Tulsa and Pepperdine.
Green Bay will open the tournament against Pepperdine on Thursday, Nov. 28. Winners advance to the semifinals with losing teams moving to the consolation round. The winner of the Green Bay/Pepperdine matchup will face the winner of Harvard-Denver on Friday, Nov. 29.
Five of the teams in the field, including Green Bay, appeared in postseason play in 2012-13. Green Bay last appeared in the Great Alaska Shootout in 1993, finishing in sixth place with a 1-2 record.
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