The Harvard Crimson reports that Harvard freshman Tomas Balcetis left the program early in the preseason due to a heart condition. In the article, Balcetis said, “I’ve had this condition for like four years now. t’s never been really serious at all, but when the level of basketball increases, the workload increases, so it’s kind of hard to sometimes go 100 percent, and college basketball is all 100 percent or nothing. I decided that maybe I should step down and maybe make basketball my hobby.”

Slant: Balcetis was one of the more highly regarded members of Frank Sullivan’s freshman class, and had the potential to play significant minutes this season, so this is a major setback for the Harvard program. Sullivan is looking for the third member of his three-man backcourt, and this means sophomore Andrew Pusar and freshman Jeremy Lin are the two leading candidates for that spot. However, neither is in Balcetis’s league as a shooter.