Suspended for the Georgetown game on Wednesday:
"This is a particular instance in which, when you deal with youngsters, especially deal with numbers, obviously there's going to be some times when you have to deal with situations. That's the way it is in every family. Certainly this is one that could have easily been avoided because obviously he wasn't a part of anything going on there. He was just there.
"Of course, you guys have read the report. You know about as much as I do. (He) just didn't handle it very well when he was asked to do something. He understands. 'Mari gets it. 'Mari, certainly after the initial thing, realization of the ramifications, something made out of something so small, he realizes he was wrong. But we'll deal with it just like we would with anybody. He feels bad about what happened. Certainly understands why he won't play. But (he's) got to somehow take this and learn from it and be stronger for it, identify any reasons on why it occurred, eliminate that from your thought process moving forward, become a better man because of it. Certainly it's a great learning lesson to our other guys, as well."