BATON ROUGE — LSU men’s head basketball coach John Brady announced on Saturday that junior guard Tony Gipson has left the LSU basketball team.
Coach Brady issued the following statement:
“It is disappointing Tony has decided to try and continue his basketball and academic pursuits somewhere else. We helped Tony through some academic difficulties last year and he would have given us added depth on the perimeter. But in my discussions with Tony, he felt his role on the team should be more in terms of minutes played and would hurt his opportunity to play at the next level. Although I may disagree with his thoughts, I respect his decision and wish him well. We will help him in everyway.”
Gipson appeared in the first three games this season and played 14 games last season before being forced to miss the second half of the season with academic issues.