Rosters changes for men's basketball at Pacific?

Yes, Pacific still resides in The Big West Conference but WAC member Idaho just might have a new basketballer -- a former Pacific one -- according to some digging by a Stockton newspaper reporter.

Jason Anderson of The Stockton Record does a superb job of covering Pacific Tiger basketball between his newspaper articles and his blog entries. It appears he has dug up some information on a story that has yet to break and also located a detail that at least seems to indicate a new backcourter is residing in Moscow, Idaho.

Sexual assault probed at UOP
Sources: Four basketball players were investigated
Jason Anderson
Stockton Record
July 17, 2008

STOCKTON - University of the Pacific officials have completed a sexual assault investigation and judicial review process that may affect the enrollment and roster status of as many as four student-athletes.

Pacific spokesman Richard Rojo said he could not identify the students because of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, a federal law protecting the privacy of student education records.

Sources said the case involves three men's basketball players and one women's basketball player. Rojo wouldn't confirm the involvement of athletes but indicated there could be unanticipated changes to the men's basketball roster, a potentially damaging blow to a team with NCAA Tournament aspirations...

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Here is the beginning of Anderson's accompanying blog entry:

Turnover for the Tigers?

You’ll have to read Thursday’s paper or go to recordnet.com at midnight to find out why there may be some unanticipated changes within the Pacific men’s basketball program. There is an interesting side note I can share with you now, but first and foremost I want to stress that it may have nothing to do with what you’ll read tomorrow.

Efforts to ascertain players’ respective whereabouts while reporting the aforementioned story led to a peculiar bit of information on a social networking site. Senior point guard Steffan Johnson’s MySpace profile lists his location as “Moscow, Idaho/Kent, Washington.” Kent is Johnson’s hometown. Moscow is home to the University of Idaho – and not much else...

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