Utah guard Vante Hendrix's departure from the basketball team this week after playing in the Utes' first four games as a redshirt freshman is “a pretty private, isolated case,” and not part of any pattern of players transferring out of the program in recent years, coach Larry Krystkowiak said Wednesday.
In his weekly media briefing after practice, Krystkowiak wouldn't say whether he or Hendrix made the decision to part ways.
Hendrix averaged 7.8 points in 17.8 minutes of four games in a Ute tenure that ended last Thursday. He had an exchange with Krystkowiak on the sideline, shown by ESPN2, after receiving a technical foul and being taken out of the game with 1:29 remaining in a 90-79 loss to Hawaii in the first round of the Wooden Legacy at Fullerton, Calif.