Ball State University men's basketball player Darren Yates has been dismissed from the team due to continued conduct detrimental to the team. Yates, who only played in one game this season due to an injury he suffered in mid-October, will no longer participate with the team in any capacity. Coach Tim Buckley said the issue is final."We wish him luck, and he's a good person, it just didn't work out," Buckley said. "I really don't want to talk a lot about it."This is not the first time this season Yates and the team has been at odds. Yates and Buckley met several times at the start of the season to discuss Yates' future with the team. He did not attend the Ball State Fan Jam at the start of the season because of those events.Yates could not be reached for comment.Freshman Anthony Newell was suspended earlier in the season for conduct detrimental to the team and sat out against Oakland City, but has played in the last three games.Yates becomes the second junior in two weeks who will not play for the Cardinals the rest of the season. Peyton Stovall suffered an ACL tear to his left knee in the Nov. 26 game against Wright State and will miss the rest of the season.Against Butler, Yates played for a brief two minutes and totaled two turnovers in that time.The junior guard started only one game against Drexel last year when he played 35 minutes. In a Ball State win against Western Michigan that ended the Broncos' 25-game home winning streak, Yates scored a career-high 11 points.
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