Well, the bowl games have been announced, so that means college football season is winding down.

College basketball season, of course, is just ramping up.

And the Big 12 is looking like it is going to be the best basketball conference in America.

I'm Pete Mundo on Heartland College Sports.

We now say hello to our lead basketball writer at Heartland College Sports, Matthew Postens.

You can read his stuff every day. You can find them on our free Heartland College Sports

message boards with I highly recommend every Big 12 fan sign up for. It's free when you go to the

website and you click on the members forum tab at the top. Well, Matthew, we can do big picture, but let's just get right to what has been a dramatic

couple of days in Manhattan, Kansas.

Naquan Tomlin, a guy who was supposed to be one of the best players in the Big 12 this season,

a potential NFL NBA draft pick as well.

He's no longer with the program. What is going on?

Because there's a lot of rumors. There's a lot of speculation, but we know he's not with the program

anymore. So what do we know right now? Yeah, I don't think we know much. I mean, we know that he was

involved in an altercation at a bar in Aggieville in October that led to his arrest for disorderly conduct.

We know that he agreed to some sort of aversion that allowed the case to be adjudicated and dismissed.

All signs pointed toward him being reinstated to the basketball program at some point, perhaps even this week.

And then all of a sudden, everything just changed on Wednesday night in Manhattan.

And they didn't, the language they used in the release was not, they didn't dismiss him from

the program.

They said he could no longer continue with the basketball program.

And I thought the language was very unique. I've seen a lot of those press releases over the years when a player

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