Sharpshooting Daniels to leave U of L -
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Published on: 6/15/2004
Last Visited: 6/16/2004
Outside shooting specialist Nate Daniels has left the University of Louisville basketball program to play for defending NAIA champion Mountain State University in Beckley, W. Va.
Daniels, a 6-foot-7, 230-pound senior-to-be from Escondido, Calif., did not return to Louisville when his teammates did at the beginning of this month, and U of L coach Rick Pitino said he wasn't sure of Daniels' intentions as late as yesterday morning.
That same day, however, Daniels was in Beckley announcing that he would play his final college season with Mountain State.Daniels did not return phone messages yesterday.
"We've given Nate his release," Pitino said in a statement released yesterday afternoon.
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Daniels averaged 5.6 points and 1.6 rebounds as a junior last season after transferring from Broward Community College in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where he had been among the nation's top junior-college scorers.He hit 40of97 three-point attempts (41.2 percent) last season and provided instant offense at times.But he also could be a defensive liability.
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"He called Adrian Jackson after we won the national championship, I guess to congratulate him, and Adrian came to me and said that he thought Nate might want to come to play here.
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I told him that I couldn't talk to him unless Nate got a release."
Daniels told The Register-Herald newspaper in Beckley that he decided to leave U of L in late May and hinted that he expected more playing time than he averaged last season.
"It was a good learning experience," Daniels told the newspaper of his time at U of L. "We practiced hard every day.
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Daniels was the fourth junior-college player to play for Pitino at U of L. Two others, Prileu Davis and Nouha Diakite, quit the team before exhausting their eligibility.
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