We can complain that Kerr Kriisa isn’t eligible to play for the Arizona Wildcats until February 6, and wonder how the NCAA determined his seemingly random suspension length, but let’s be glad that we finally have some closure on the situation.
Kriisa having to wait months to hear when—or if—he was going to suit up this season was weighing on him, according to UA coach Sean Miller.
“You just have to imagine a young kid who makes a big decision in his life to come over here to the United States alone from Estonia to play college basketball, to attend our university, you have the COVID backdrop with it and he came here in the middle of August and he found out right before Christmas that he’s going to be OK,” Miller said Tuesday.