SEC suspends Alabama’s Mohamed Wague 1 recreation for malicious elbow

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Alabama ahead Mohamed Wague was suspended for one recreation by the Southeastern Convention on Thursday for elbowing Florida’s Alex Condon at the back of the top.

Wague, who averages 4.0 factors and a pair of.8 rebounds per recreation for the Thirteenth-ranked Crimson Tide, will miss Saturday’s recreation at No. 17 Kentucky.

Wague threw the elbow whereas Condon was on the bottom throughout a scramble for a unfastened ball within the first half of Wednesday night time’s recreation, which Alabama gained 98-93 in additional time. Wague was not known as for a foul on the play.

“We acquired the self-discipline for Mo from the SEC and agree with the suspension,” Alabama coach Nate Oats mentioned in an announcement. “After reviewing the movie, the penalty is comprehensible and applicable.”

NCAA guidelines require a participant be suspended for the following regular-season recreation if he commits an act of preventing. That is outlined as “a confrontation involving a number of gamers, coaches or different crew personnel whereby (however not restricted to) a fist, hand, arm, foot, knee or leg is used to combatively strike the opposite particular person.”