Star player on UNLV arrested

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This story impacts ISU, as their matchup in the MVC/Mountain West Challenge will be UNLV..

UNLV visits ISU on December 1st..but might be without their best player...

Their star, and the runnerup to MWC Player of the Year last year, Tre'von Willis has been arrested on multiple felony charges..

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=5341481

UNLV will also be without one other of their best returning players...
Forward Matt Shaw failed NCAA drug tests (same rule that nailed Ray Brown) and is ineligible this entire next, upcoming year...

Shaw and Willis were the #1 and #4 scorers for UNLV and accounted for 46%+ of their expected returning scoring among last year's starters...

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facing felony charge

http://www.lvrj.com/sports/da-s-office-files-one-felony-charge-against-willis-97921419.html

"Neither UNLV's administration nor coach Lon Kruger has disciplined Willis.
Kruger previously indicated that any such decisions will be made when Willis'
legal status is settled"

...and I suspect they can get continuances 'til the end of the 17 ppg Willis' senior season...
so the kid will play out his career without any discipline issued......

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so now ISU's NON-CON SOS will be even worse....

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http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/jul/21/unlvs-trevon-willis-pleads-not-guilty-misdemeanor-/

still has to face both the misdemeanor & the felony charge

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After originally being charged with numerous felony charges, UNLV's Tre'Von Willis plead guilty to a reduced misdemeanor charge in his domestic battery case......

His penalty served by the UNLV Athletic Dept. and head coach Lon Kruger...
is a "three game suspension"....after Lon said simply that Willis "made a mistake"....

but it's not really 3 games -- it is actually only ONE GAME .....UNLV is saying Willis will sit out for their TWO exhibition games, and also the first regular season game vs. UC-Riverside..

In other words...he will miss one cupcake regular season game ....

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=5627231

I know a Valley player who plead guilty to even FAR lesser charges, took supervision then had his guilty plea removed from the record,
and his record cleared...yet he was hammered far more severely - and I don't recall anyone ever trivializing the crime as a "mistake".