CHARLOTTESVILLE – Dave Leitao’s basketball team traveled to Montreal last month without its tallest player, but Assane Sene has since cleared the administrative hurdles that stood in his way.

On the day the Cavaliers left for Canada, where they played three exhibition games, the university announced that Sene, a 7-0, 225-pound freshman, would not make the trip “due to pending clarification of his initial eligibility status.”  (Junior swingman Solomon Tat, because of concerns about his visa, also stayed home.)

The NCAA Eligibility Center, formerly known as the NCAA Clearinghouse, rules on the academic status of each incoming recruit. Sene is a good student, but his international background made his case more complicated than most, and that caused the delay.

Sene, who’s from Saint-Louis, Senegal, has lived in the United States for only about 16 months. He came to America in March 2007 and enrolled at South Kent School in Connecticut.  Sene was a 12th-grader at South Kent in 2007-08. 

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