After a blow out win in the Sweet 16 at the 11U AAU Nationals the Harvest Knights were disqualified for allegedly carrying an ineligible player. The player in question originally played for a Delaware based AAU team and was added to the Knights roster for the Nationals. The incident was reported to Basketball Spotlight yesterday and we begun our own investigation. We talked to all the parties involved including the player’s father and have come to the conclusion that the team was purposely deceived by the player’s parent. The father stated that he knowingly deceived the Harvest Knights by issuing a faulty birth certificate and he felt very bad for his decision to do so. AAU will be issuing a complete statement about this situation soon and we will keep you posted. It’s a sad situation for everyone involved and we hate to see something of this nature occurring. It’s bad for youth basketball.
