Posted: Wednesday January 03, 2001 1:57 PM
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Sports Illustrated senior writer Grant Wahl answers your college basketball questions every Wednesday. Click here to send him a question.
What is going on with the "Jewish Jordan" Tamir Goodman? I remember that Sports Illustrated did a story on him a while back, and I haven't heard anything about his freshman year.
—Dov Stein, Morristown, N.J.
After getting national pub as an Orthodox Jew who had committed to Maryland, Goodman renounced his commitment in late '99 and is playing these days as a freshman at Towson University outside Baltimore. So far everything is going pretty well for Goodman. He played well enough in the preseason to earn a starting spot, and he has started 11 of 13 games, averaging 4.5 points and 1.9 rebounds a game for a 6-7 team. Last month Goodman had a season-high 16 points in a win against Liberty, and he scored nine in a narrow loss to Michigan on Dec. 27.
Towson has adjusted its schedule to accommodate Goodman, who can't play, practice or travel from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday or on any holiday. For example, all of the Tigers' Saturday and Sunday afternoon home games were moved to 8 p.m. on Saturdays. The only potential conflict right now is if Towson makes the final of the America East tournament, which has an 11:30 a.m. Saturday start.
In any case, Goodman's long, complicated story appears to have turned out for the best, after all, and given the pressure he's had to face over the last couple of years, that's quite an accomplishment.
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