Arizona head coach Sean Miller updated the status of sophomore guard Brandon Williams today. He said Williams was not able to finish the last 25 percent of his rehab, which he says is the most crucial part of the process. At this point Williams' status with the team remains unchanged. The California native remains in Los Angeles and is still on full scholarship at UA. Miller said Williams is also currently taking a summer school class.
As far as his future, Miller said that is unclear since he can't even get his knee evaluated right now. Miller was vague about whether or not Williams will be the player who is without a scholarship this season since the Wildcats are currently over the 13-man limit.
He said the situation will get figured out and he believes UA will be back at the limit when the season starts, but he didn't get into the specifics beyond that. He did somewhat hint that academics could play a role in determining just who it is that not be on scholarship by the time the school year begins.
"It's late May," he said. "I've thought about it many, many times this spring. If you go back a year ago, we had I think three, maybe four, things that happened in terms of our roster changing from the Memorial Weekend until we began the fall semester. There's different guys that have some academic work to do. In our case, clearly we're working hard from an international perspective that we have any problems solved and working there.
"... I think when we get through the summer and we show up in the fall we'll be at 13 scholarship players, and I think that it will all work out. I say that with great confidence. Work out not only for our program, but I think work out for everybody that we're involved with at the moment."
If you want to see some of the other notable topics discussed by Miller, you can click here to see some of the video clips I compiled from Miller's Zoom call with local media this afternoon.
