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Monday, December 18, 2006
Where have you gone? (Breaking news edition)
Bucknell junior Andrew Morrison has left the team. Morrison, a 6-7, 220-pound forward from Sea Isle City, N.J., played in eight of the Bison's nine games this season, averaging 7.7 minutes per game.

Morrison was a significant part of Pat Flannery's rotation at the start of the season, averaging 16 minutes per game in Bucknell's first four outings. Against Wake Forest, he played a career-high 21 minutes, scoring 10 points and pulling down 5 rebounds.

But after the Penn State game, in which he played 13 minutes, Morrison's playing time plummeted. He played 2 minutes at Yale, 1 at St. Francis and did not play against Northern Iowa. In Bucknell's last two games, against George Mason and at Cornell, Morrison played just a minute.

"The way things were going, it just was not for me," said Morrison, who informed his teammates of his decision after the Cornell game.

One of the few non-scholarship players on the team, Morrison was projected as a wing when he arrived on the Lewisburg campus. After a year in the weight room, Morrison developed the strength to play the four, and heading into last season he was expected to pick up some of the minutes graduated Chris Niesz had played there the previous year. A badly sprained ankle in early December forced him to miss six games and by the time he returned, Flannery's rotation was set and the Bison were on a roll.

Morrison considered transferring after last season, but was convinced to return.

"The beginning of the year, in scrimmages and stuff, it looked as if it was going well," Morrison said, adding that as his minutes shrank, he "saw where it was going."

Morrison plans to remain at Bucknell, where he carries a 3.4 gpa as a management major, with post-graduate plans to go to law school.

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