Stool-brandishing Kansas player suspended indefinitely following Tuesday's melee
Kansas Jayhawks forward Silvio De Sousa has been suspended indefinitely by the team for his role in an ugly brawl at the end of Tuesday night's Kansas-Kansas State game, ESPN reports.
"I have suspended Silvio De Sousa indefinitely pending the final outcome of the review by KU and the Big 12 Conference," Jayhawks coach Bill Self said in a statement. "As I said last night, we are disappointed in his actions and there is no place in the game for that behavior."
The melee — which occurred in the disabled seating section of Kansas' Allen Fieldhouse — began after De Sousa blocked a shot by Kansas State's DeJuan Gordon in the closing moments of Kansas' 81-60 victory. De Sousa stood above the fallen Gordon as an apparent taunt, Gordon's teammates confronted De Sousa, and a wild fight quickly ensued, with De Sousa at one point brandishing a stool. De Sousa was suspended for the entire 2018-19 season after being implicated in the FBI's investigation into corruption in college basketball, and though he was supposed to sit out the current season, Kansas successfully — and now, regrettably — appealed the ban.
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