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Saturday February 23, 2002

Legans out for USC game 

Cal junior point guard Shantay Legans will sit out Saturday’ s game against No. 20 USC Saturday due to a concussion he suffered in Thursday’ s contest vs. UCLA.  

Legans, who averages 7.2 points and 3.9 assists for the Bears, sustained the injury in the closing minutes of Cal’ s 69-51 win over the Bruins. With 2:44 left in the game, UCLA’ s Matt Barnes knocked Legans to the floor with his forearm, and Legans sustained the concussion when his head hit the ground. Barnes received a one-game suspension for the incident.  

Legans’ status for next week’ s games at Arizona State and Arizona will be determined early in the week.  

Cal head coach Ben Braun said that sophomore A.J. Diggs would start in Legans’ place. Diggs started five consecutive games earlier this season.  

 

Cal officials looking into complaints about coach 

Cal officials are reported to be investigating complaints against former women’s gymnastics coach Trina Tinti, who resigned earlier this week. 

The complaints have to do with an unusually high injury rate for Tinti’ s team. Four Golden Bears were injured in as many weeks earlier this season. 

Cal officials said Tinti’ s resignation was her own decision. Assistant coaches Jennifer Bialosky and Steve Wilken have taken over Tinti’ s duties for the time being.