Aboya on national team
I ran into UCLA junior power forward/center Alfred Aboya on campus and he said he is playing for Cameroon's national team in July's Olympic qualifying tournament, but that has no bearing on whether he returns to UCLA for his senior season.
Aboya said his decision to play for Cameroon does not impact his ability to graduate after UCLA's first summer session. The 12-team tournament will be played July 14-20 in Athens, Greece, and three teams will qualify for Olympic games in China later in the summer.
Cameroon is grouped with Croatia an Puerto Rico. After a round-robin, the top two teams advance to knockout play. The two countries reaching the title game receive bids to the Olympics, as does the winner of a game pitting the two losers of the semifinals.
Aboya said he still has not decided whether or not he will leave UCLA after the summer to pursue his master's degree.
Aboya added he was unsure if teammate and countryman Luc Richard Mbah a Moute was also playing.
About Inside UCLA
This is Brian Dohn's fifth season covering UCLA after spending 4 1/2 years covering the Dodgers for the Daily News and other Los Angeles Newspaper Group papers. He graduated from Rutgers, where the first college football game was played in 1869. Sure, the Scarlet Knights suffered for a long time, but now RU is doing what Jerseyans always thought was possible. Winning at Rutgers also proves winning is possible everywhere else in the nation, so underachieving coaches better be careful. Now, if only men's hoops can turn it around.
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