Gopher Basketball Player Suspended After Arrest For Criminal Sexual Conduct

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO/AP) -- Months after three Gophers basketball players were suspended following a sex video posted to a player's social media account, another player has been arrested on suspicion of sexual assault.

Hennepin County Jail records show Reggie Lynch, 21, was arrested Sunday afternoon for probably cause criminal sexual conduct. He was arrested by the University of Minnesota Police Department at about 1:24 p.m. Sunday. The University of Minnesota Athletic Department said in a release that Lynch has been suspended indefinitely from all team activities pending the outcome of an investigation.

Lynch sat out the 2015-16 season due to NCAA rules after transferring from Illinois State. He is originally from Edina and was expected to be a significant contributor to this year's team and possibly start at center.

"As an athletics department and a university, we are committed to respect toward all members of the community and we hold all of our student-athletes accountable to the highest standards," the university statement said.

Coach Richard Pitino heads into his fourth season next year with a host of questions about whether the Golden Gophers can bounce back from a trying year. Minnesota went just 2-16 in the Big Ten Conference and finished 8-23, the most losses in the program's 121-year history.

Three players were suspended at the end of the season after a sex video briefly appeared on social media. One of the players, Kevin Dorsey, will transfer. Nate Mason and Dupree McBrayer have been reinstated.

The Gophers were looking forward to an infusion of talent next season, including Texas A&M transfer Davonte Fitzgerald and Lynch, whose future is now unclear.

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