Big 12 Drops the Hammer on Silvio De Sousa and Others After Kansas-Kansas State Brawl

After an atrocious look for both Kansas and Kansas State on Tuesday night, in which their rivalry matchup ended in a benches-clearing brawl, players from both schools have been rightfully suspended.

The Big 12 dropped the hammer on several players who were instigators on Tuesday night, including Silvio De Sousa, who received a 12-game ban from the conference after Kansas originally suspended the forward indefinitely.

In all, four players were suspended. Along with De Sousa's 12-game ban, David McCormak received a two-game suspension for the Jayhawks. On the Kansas State side of things, James Love was suspended eight games, and Antonio Gordon received a three-game ban.

College basketball as a whole has no room for these actions, and the punishment fits the crime perfectly.

Each and every player should be given the ability to rehabilitate their image given this is a game played by so-called amateur athletes. Nonetheless, playing NCAA-level college hoops is a privilege, not a right, and the Big 12 has treated it as such.