Pitt's Gilbert Brown: From academic award winner to academically ineligible
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Last week, Pittsburgh suspended redshirt junior Gilbert Brown from the men's basketball team for the fall semester for academic reasons. Brown, a 6-6 forward, was a starter on the 2007-08 team and came off the bench for last year's Panthers team, which spent part of the season ranked No. 1 in the nation. The strange thing about Brown's suspension? In April he won the team's Academic Excellence Award for success in the classroom. Hopefully for Jamie Dixon, his team's success on the court won't deteriorate as quickly as Brown's success in the classroom did. In other, unrelated Big East news, West Virginia point guard Darryl "Truck" Bryant has avoided jail time for his role in two car accidents that happened over the summer. Bryant had pleaded no contest to leaving the scene of a July 4 accident and failing to give information and render aid; and had pleaded no contest to a charge of failure to exercise due care in a June 21 incident in which his car struck a fellow West Virginia student in front of a nightclub. Bryant remains under indefinite suspension. The Mountaineers have just reinstated another suspended point guard, Johnston's Joe Mazzulla. 
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