UR notes: Diekvoss in, Piotrowski out |
Tuesday, 06 August 2013 |
 Luke Piotrowski Richmond Times-Dispatch: Something recently happened to the University of Richmond basketball program that hasn’t happened in a while. The Spiders lost a player with eligibility remaining.
Luke Piotrowski, who’s 6-foot-11 and spent one of his two years at Richmond as a redshirt, is transferring. The Spiders haven’t been bitten by the attrition bug much since early in Chris Mooney’s coaching tenure, which started in 2005.
“I understand his desire to have a better chance to play more minutes. He’s a talented player, and I think he wants to maximize that by being on the court,” Mooney said of Piotrowski. “At the same time, we don’t like to have anybody leave the program.”
The Spiders picked up an oral commitment from 6-6 Chandler Diekvoss, from De Pere, Wisc. He averaged 16 points and 6 rebounds last season as a junior, and shot 44 percent from 3-point distance, at West De Pere High School.
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