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Freshman Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk's arrival to Kansas' campus has been delayed ... for a good reason.

The 17-year-old Mykhailiuk officially made the FIBA World Cup roster for his home country of Ukraine. The tournament is set to run from Aug. 30 through Sept. 14 in Spain.

Mykhailiuk, who's listed as a 6-8, 195-pound guard on KU's roster page, helped Ukraine's U18 team to a second-place finish in FIBA's Division B European championship tournament earlier this month in Bulgaria. Mykhailiuk, who averaged 16 points and 4.7 rebounds at the event, was named the tourney's MVP.

Hope he has gas in the tank for....BOOT CAMP !!

So: a couple thoughts on Svi.

1. He must really be 6-6 and 180, when transposed from KU units of measure into English units of measure.

2. I wonder if Svi has been delaying coming to USA, because he has been waiting to see what is going to happen to Ukraine? When he first announced he was coming, things were suddenly very bad there. When he decided to stick around and play in some of these tourneys, it seemed things had calmed a bit and Putin and Kerry were trying some diplomacy. But the last two weeks things seem to have deteriorated rapidly there and increasingly it appears that US policy to back the bold aggressiveness of the Kiev regime toward the Russian portion of the Ukrainian population, while insisting the EU fall in with this US policy, leaves Putin little choice but to threaten the EU's fall and winter energy supply. Such a counter move by Putin will likely raise events to the flash point. Perhaps Svi and his family face some very uncertain and difficult choices in the midst of this bloody gambit by both sides for advantageous control of the Eurasian center point by trying to unsnag Ukraine and thus the Black Sea away from Putin before Putin can complete the south stream gas pipeline being laid across the Black Sea to feed southern Europe a cheap gas supply free of USA/UK control.

I hate it when basketball gets ensnared in international relations.

@jaybate-1.0

1 - According to this article...

Link to Svi info... ↗

He is taller that 6'-7" as observed when he was on campus last week. The Ukrainian web site has listed hims at 6'-6" for while now, but I am not sure how up to date it is. NBA Draft lists him now at 6'-7"...so he is somewhere between 6'-6" and 6-8', likely in the middle.

2a - What 17 year old would pass playing for the National Team of his country?...or any country?

2b - Maybe he just wants to improve his game and I (and apparently his family) cannot think of a better place to do it than KU...and he was already on campus last week.; so much for delaying coming to the US.A.

The Occam's Razor principle indicates that given several hypotheses/answers the simplest one is usually the correct one.