Alexandre Gavrilovic, a 6-foot-9, 225-pound French post player, is not qualified to play at Providence this season because of a conversion issue related to his French grades.
“It is very hard for Alex and we are very disappointed,” Corinne Gavrilovic, Alex’s mother, wrote in an email to Dan Barto, her son’s coach at IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla.
According to Barto, the problem stems from how the NCAA is converting the grades of French students who come to the U.S.
“The NCAA is using a different conversion for French students than the one used by the government of France,” Barto wrote in an email.