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Moustapha Diagne, former Class of 2015 signee, has not had eligibility ruled on by the NCAA

Class of 2015 signee Moustapha Diagne has not had his eligibility confirmed on by the NCAA, per a report by the New Jersey Herald, and he accepted a visa from a junior college on Thursday, his deadline to be enrolled in a college.

“He needed to accept a visa from a junior college (Thursday),” Diagne’s basketball coach at Pope John XXIII Regional (New Jersey) High School, Jason Hasson, said to the New Jersey Herald. “So, that was the way we went.”

Diagne’s eligibility is in question because of a class he took in Senegal, where he’s from, before coming to the United States in 2012. Hasson would not release the name of the school Diagne enrolled in for this fall to the New Jersey Herald but said Diagne will be going to the junior college on a full scholarship.

Diagne was part of a class Jim Boeheim reportedly said would be the best recruiting class Syracuse has ever had. The rest of the class includes forward Tyler Lydon and guards Malachi Richardson and Frank Howard, ranked 69th, 29th and 86th by Scout.com, respectively, in the Class of 2015. Diagne, a power forward, was ranked 82nd in the Class of 2015.

Diagne had been visiting his family in Senegal for the first time since 2012, David Wilder, his host father, told Scout.com in early July. At the time, Wilder also added that Diagne fully expected to be on campus.



“It had nothing to do with his Pope John transcript; he did very well at Pope John, he was a very good student,” Hasson said to the New Jersey Herald. “It was just a question about a class he took over there (in Senegal). One single class.”





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