OU's Bassett arrested

[LutherRackleyRulez]

Per Goodman/FoxSports.....


OHIO UNIVERSITY'S BASSETT ARRESTED AFTER FIGHT

There was a reason Armon Bassett didn’t make it at Indiana – or UAB – or maybe now at Ohio.

Bassett has long had a reputation – and the latest incident won’t help his effort to alter the reputation.

Bassett, who was key in Ohio University’s success this past season in getting to the NCAA tournament and beating Georgetown in the first round, was arrested and charged with assault this past weekend.

Bassett, 23 got into a fight with a doorman – according to the police – and the doorman “received what appeared to be a broken nose.”



http://community.foxsports.com/goodmanonfox/blog/2010/05/03/ohio_universitys_bassett_arrested_after_fight

[LutherRackleyRulez]

Per Parrish/CBSSports....


Ohio's Basset latest example knuckleheads rarely change face

Ohio star Armon Bassett was arrested and charged with assault this weekend.

Guess who's not surprised by the news?

Pretty much everybody who knew him at Indiana.


No, Bassett never assaulted anybody in his two years at the Big Ten school (far as I know). But he was dismissed because of "disciplinary" reasons, which is a respectful way of saying, "Go be somebody else's problem, kid." Bassett subsequently enrolled at UAB but left before ever playing a game. From there he enrolled at Ohio, regained his eligibility and led the Bobcats to a blowout of Georgetown in the first round of the 2010 NCAA tournament.

Bassett scored 32 points in that win.

In an interview recorded shortly after, I referred to Bassett as a "knucklehead" because that's the nicest way to reference someone who just might be a little crazy. All things considered, I was being kind.

But I still got a long e-mail from an Ohio fan who took offense. The e-mail closed like this: "Armon Bassett is a great basketball player, but even more, he seems like a good person who is just trying to better himself. It's unfortunate that knuckleheads who get paid to talk college basketball without doing the appropriate background work can't see that and just keep doubting him. I'd say you owe him an apology, but I doubt he would even want it. Armon and the rest of the Bobcats will just have to keep proving people like you wrong, I guess. So don't apologize, just do some research next time."

I didn't apologize.

(You assumed that, I'm sure.)

I instead told the reader I could "do some research" on Bassett if that's what he wanted, but I also explained how I had already done research on Bassett, or at least heard plenty of stories about him, and that those stories are what led to the "knucklehead" reference in the first place. Like so many players, Bassett is talented but troubled. The fact that he had publicly avoided problems at Ohio seemed more coincidental than anything else.

And then came Saturday night.



http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/story/13340370/ohios-basset-latest-example-knuckleheads-rarely-change-face?tag=coverlist_footer;coverlist_photo_content

[waggy]

Pretty sure he was real close to choosing X before Sampson got hired at IU. If he is the same kid I'm thinking of, I was disappointed we didn't get him at the time. Not anymore.

[MADXSTER]

As someone else said in another thread.....

Sometimes players are their own worst enemy's.

[XU 87]

Pretty sure he was real close to choosing X before Sampson got hired at IU. If he is the same kid I'm thinking of, I was disappointed we didn't get him at the time. Not anymore.

He was close to choosing X but Lavender transferred first. I don't think X recruited him after that. I think Bassett made some comment shortly thereafter stating that he wanted to go to X, or words to that effect.