Clemson men’s basketball player David Skara has been suspended for the first nine games of the season, the NCAA announced Friday afternoon.
Skara, a redshirt junior, is being suspended for a violation that occurred while he was a student-athlete at Valparaiso in April of 2016 prior to transferring to Clemson and sitting out a year.
The 6-foot-8 forward was recently described as being “by far” Clemson’s best defender by head coach Brad Brownell.
“We’re disappointed in the NCAA for withholding David from competition, but we are certainly proud of the way he is handling it,” Brownell said in a statement on Friday.