NCAA Basketball – Former Bruin to play for Baylor
J’mison Morgan has been granted an NCAA Basketball waiver that will allow him to play for the Baylor Bears immediately without sitting out the 2010-11 College Basketball season.
The 6-foot-10 junior center from Dallas, who was with the UCLA Bruins last season, will be eligible to play once he completes the necessary NCAA paperwork, Baylor coach Scott Drew said Monday.
Morgan is already enrolled in classes at Baylor and will have two seasons of eligibility remaining.
The player was dismissed from the Bruins in March after being suspended a game for missing a team meeting and didn’t play in the Bruins’ two Pac-10 tournament games. He also missed seven games recovering from a partially torn quadriceps.
In 40 games as a reserve his two seasons at UCLA, Morgan averaged 2.1 points and 1.1 rebounds a game.
Morgan transferred to Baylor to be closer to his ill grandmother, who is his legal guardian.
He transferred to Baylor in April and the Bears immediately applied for his waiver request following his transfer in April. He enrolled in the school’s first summer session before taking fall classes.
The addition of Morgan could be a boost for Baylor, which lost two starting post players after making it to the NCAA South Regional final last season before a loss to eventual national champion Duke.
Before going to UCLA, Morgan played at South Oak Cliff High in Dallas, where as a freshman (2004-05) he was a teammate of former Baylor player Kevin Rogers.
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