University officials released a statement yesterday afternoon declaring junior forward Spencer Gloger of the men's basketball team academically ineligible for competition.
Gloger is no longer enrolled at Princeton and will not be allowed to return to school until the spring of next year — the middle of the 2003-2004 season.
"Spencer has been declared academically ineligible," head coach John Thompson '88 said in the statement. "I'm extremely disappointed for Spencer, but we will move on."
He is not accompanying the team to Dartmouth College or Harvard University for this weekend's games.
"I'm disappointed that I won't be able to help my teammates for the rest of this season," Gloger said in the statement. "I'll be pulling for them."
Gloger was the team's leading scorer, averaging 15.0 points per game, good for fourth in the Ivy League. He also hauled down a team best 108 rebounds. In league scoring, he trailed only Brown's Earl Hunt, Harvard's Patrick Harvey and Penn's Ugonna Onyekwe. Harvey was declared academically ineligible last week in his last semester at Harvard.
Gloger began his collegiate journey in the fall of 1999, when he chose Princeton over the University of California at Los Angeles after his senior year at Santa Margarita High School in California. He was a significant contributor as a freshman, pouring in 12.0 points per game. He also set the school's freshman record with 34 points against the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
After that season, head coach Bill Carmody left for Northwestern, and fellow basketball star Chris Young '02 signed a minor league baseball contract, making him ineligible to play Ivy League basketball. With the option of attending UCLA still open to him, Gloger decided to head back west and play for head coach Steve Lavin and the Bruins.
During his NCAA-mandated one-year hiatus for transferring, Gloger pined to be back at the school he left behind. Gloger decided at the end of the year to transfer back to Princeton, and once again had to sit out a year.
His return gave the team hope it could upset Penn for the Ivy League title. Now, it must not only win without its leading scorer and rebounder, but also put aside the distraction of his dismissal.
The squad is currently two games back of Penn and one game behind Brown in the Ivy League standings. Princeton still has a game at Brown and hosts Penn to close the season on March 11.
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