IU dismisses Emmitt Holt from basketball team

Webster Schroeder graduate and Indiana University sophomore Emmitt Holt has been dismissed from the university men’s basketball team.

The university announced Monday that Holt, 19, was dismissed from the team, just a week after the release of a police report in which he was accused of having vodka.

In discussing Bryan the release states that he is subject to additional discipline for any future failure to “live up to his responsibilities to the program”.

This is the second alcohol-related incident involving Holt. Holt last fall was the driver of an automobile that struck Davis, who was ruled by police to be at fault for the accident.

Holt had already run into a misstep stemming from the Halloween night accident previous year in which he hit teammate Devin Davis with a auto, resulting in a major head injury to Davis.

In the most recent incident, IU freshman Thomas Bryant was also cited by Indiana Excise Police.

These were part of a series of incidents over the last 18 months that have not met program standards.

The Hoosiers are projected as a top-15 team entering the 2015-16 season and have some marquee non conference games (at Duke, Maui Invitational), before they start a tough Big Ten conference slate.

Mosquera-Perea was arrested for OWI in February 2014. Devin Davis and Hanner Mosquera-Perea were dismissed in May for “not living up to their responsibilities to the program”.

They are led by their guard play in Yogi Ferrell and James Blackmon Jr.

That’s a question Hoosier leadership must ask themselves, before it’s too late to salvage a season that has yet to even begin. His best performance came in a win over Pitt in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge, when he scored 15 points and grabbed five rebounds.

Bryant will. The 6-foot-10, 245-pound McDonald’s All-American should give Indiana the strongest inside presence it’s had since Cody Zeller left early for the National Basketball Association following the 2012-13 season. It is possible, wearing the ideal shade of crimson in one’s glasses, to view this decision as evidence Hoosiers basketball is operating with the standards of discipline that ought to be expected from a proud Division I program.