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A summer league basketball game that turned out to be unsanctioned will keep senior center Moussa Badiane out of East Carolina's lineup when the Pirates open their season in the Black Coaches Association Invitational Tournament.

Badiane, whose infraction was announced Monday by ECU, and junior point guard Raymond Felton of UNC-Chapel Hill have each been declared ineligible for one game by the NCAA for their participation in a non-certified game conducted by the Capital Park Summer Basketball League in Raleigh.

Badiane will miss ECU's game on Wednesday against Pepperdine in the BCA event at the RBC Center in Raleigh, while Felton will be held out of the Tar Heels' Nov. 19 season opener against Santa Clara in Oakland, CA.

According to an Associated Press report, the organization that staged the offseason games, known as the Chavis League, neglected to inform some players until after they had participated that its competitions were not approved by the NCAA.

Badiane and Felton were unaware that the Chavis League wasn’t properly certified as it had been in recent years.

Badiane will be eligible to play in all other games beginning with the Pirates’ game against either Oregon State or Siena on Thursday's second day of the BCA tournament.

Felton will see his first action when the Tar Heels face Brigham Young in the first round of the Maui Invitational on Nov. 22.

[Conference USA team, including future members, and Carolinas teams in bold. ECU opponents in red. Teams belonging to a conference with no guaranteed BCS bowl bid in italics.]

    Rank/Team
   1. Southern Cal
    2. Oklahoma
    3. Auburn
    4. California
    5. Texas
    6. Utah
    7. Michigan
    8. Florida State
    9. Boise State
   10. Louisville
   11. Georgia
   12. Miami (FL)
   13. Wisconsin
   14. Arizona State
   15. Virginia Tech
   16. Louisiana State
   17. Tennessee
   18. Iowa
   19. Virginia
   20. Texas A&M
   21. Boston College
   22. Oklahoma State
   23. West Virginia
   24. Texas-El Paso
   25. Bowling Green

The Top 25 teams in The Associated Press college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Nov. 14, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote, and previous ranking:

[Conference USA team, including future members, and Carolinas teams in bold. East Carolina opponents in red. Potential ECU BCA Invitational opponents in italics.]

Record/(1st place votes)/Record/Points/Previous
1. Kansas (26) (0-0) 1703 1
2. Wake Forest (23) (0-0) 1685 2
3. Georgia Tech (10) (0-0) 1575 3
4. North Carolina (8) (0-0) 1540 4
5. Syracuse (2-0) 1460 6
6. Illinois (2) (0-0) 1453 5
7. Oklahoma State (2) (0-0) 1365 7
8. Connecticut (0-0) 1278 8
9. Kentucky (1) (0-0) 1190 9
10. Arizona (0-0) 1037 10
11. Duke (0-0) 1009 11
12. Mississippi State (2-0) 932 12
13. Michigan State (0-0) 894 13
14. Louisville (0-0) 877 14
15. Maryland (0-0) 778 15
16. Texas (0-0) 650 16
17. Pittsburgh (0-0) 637 17
18. Alabama (0-0) 520 18
19. N.C. State (0-0) 506 19
20. Notre Dame (0-0) 413 20
21. Wisconsin (0-0) 365 21
22. Washington (0-0) 335 22
23. Florida (0-0) 320 23
24. Memphis (2-0) 311 24
25. Gonzaga (0-0) 204 25

Others Receiving Votes: Stanford 79, Michigan 52, Charlotte 36, Providence 31, Cincinnati 27, Southern Illinois 26, Oklahoma 25, Utah 18, Boston College 11, Texas-El Paso 7, George Washington 7, Vermont 6, UAB 5, East Tennessee State 4, Louisiana State 4, Tennessee 4, Toledo 4, UCLA 4, Nevada-Las Vegas 4, Iowa State 2, Oregon 2, Rice 2, Indiana 1, Virginia Commonwealth 1.

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