One month after Memphis lost to Kansas in overtime on April 7, 2008, in one of the most thrilling national championship games in recent memory, the Tigers were rocked by an e-mail from the NCAA.
It was then that Memphis was first notified that star freshman point guard Derrick Rose, who helped the Tigers to an NCAA-record 38 wins and was soon going to become the No. 1 pick in the 2008 NBA draft by his hometown Bulls, had an invalidated standardized test score the previous year at Chicago's Simeon High School, according to multiple sources with direct knowledge of the e-mail.
The University of Memphis' legal counsel, Sheri Lipman, would not identify the student-athlete as Rose, but said Monday, "for the student-athlete, whoever that was, the first indication that we got was in early May [2008] that his score was being invalidated."
So wait, Memphis knew that one of it's student athletes (Derrick Rose) had BS SATs and let him in anyways? I like it and I like there style. It is about time we have had a good SAT scandal, the last one that I remember is Lamar Odom and URI. If this is confirmed(which it practically is), that would mean that Memphis' 38 wins and National Championship loss will go away forever, and RIP with the fab 5's banners.
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