McBride Will Redshirt

U of A SID: Juco Guard McBride Will Join UA Basketball Team for Spring Semester and Redshirt in 2005-06

"He will join our team in the second semester," Heath says. "He has been taking classes all summer. He has successfully completed his work for Monterey, however, he still has Southeastern Conference core course requirements to fulfill, and that’s what he’s making progress towards right now."

Heath considered playing him during the second half of the season, but McBride will now redshirt.

"We knew during the recruiting process that he would not be ready for the first semester," Heath says. "We anticipated him playing in December, but we have now decided to redshirt him. It is not in his best interest to rush through this. He will have two full years of eligibility remaining."

I guess the rumors of this have been flying around for about a week. To me, it's hard to know what you lose when you've never really seen it. And now that it's been pretty well established that Sean McCurdy is at least a decent outside scorer, I still think this team's shooting will be improved.

So with McBride out now and Olu gone, the continuing theme from the offseason of "addition by subtraction" might end up being this team's motto for the season.

Also:

Scott Cain: Heath to redshirt transfer McBride

Updated 8/22/2005 10:10 p.m. - Added additional commentary.
Updated 8/23/2005 8:30 a.m. - Added additional links.