Basketball Player Sues to Get Scholarship Back

A former student-athlete on the University of Southern Mississippi basketball team has sued the university in Forrest County Chancery Court for reneging on a verbal promise to continue his scholarship after he voluntarily left the team.   Ben Lambert was a 6-foot-9 senior on the basketball team when he allegedly went to then-head-coach James Green midway through the 2002-2003 season to tell the coach he was leaving the team for personal reasons. Lambert wrote in the complaint that he was su