Lafayette's Petrie out for the season

Unfortunate for him and the team. A real competitor

Sorry to hear this--hope he recovers and returns to the court

Ugh. Hate to see these things. Hope he recovers fully from whatever is going on.

The official news release from Lafayette. . . . "Petrie is expected to make a full recovery and will be prepared to return in 2020-21 with two years of athletic eligibility remaining."

goleopards.com/news/2019/10/31/mens-basketball-petrie-to-miss-2019-20-season-expected-to-return-for-2020-21.aspx

For one reason or another the league has lost some talented players who could have made a difference for their respective teams this year, Green and Grandison for HC, Iorio at American, Scanlon and Guest at BU, Strong at Navy Andree and Bennett at Lehigh and now Petrie for Lafayette.

And I was going to make an exaggerated post about how he shot about 60% from three against us the past two seasons. He actually did!

For the sake of PL basketball, I look forward to him returning healthy in 2020.

Unless I'm mistaken Sestina had no eligibility remaining at Bucknell so he was never going to play in the league this year unlike the others mentioned.

No, he had a year of eligibility left at Bucknell, just as he had one year left at any school that he chose to go to. The issue was whether or not Bucknell would allow him to pursue an academic program to stay in school to use the final year of eligibility. Had it been a decade earlier, he would’ve had a number of options to remain, but that is no longer true. If he had been admissible into a graduate degree program in engineering or education, he also could have used that last year of eligibility.

My understanding was that Sestina was able to move to a higher profile program without sitting a year because he had graduated. Very common move nowadays.

I never interpreted his departure from Bucknell after four years (and a degree)  as something he was reluctant to do. (I'm not even sure if he had pursued a medical redshirt thru the PL). I don't recall a possibility (or lack thereof) of remaining and entering graduate school at Bucknell being part of his decision at all.  I admit I don't follow Bison hoops regularly but do recall reading a couple of articles about his departure.

If you mean on paper I agree. In real terms their experience is a loss, but only time will tell if others step up and limit the impact of their departure.