Settling the Men's Basketball Retired Jersey Issue

As I've discussed, I had been efforting an answer about the Men's Basketball Retired Jersey/Banner Issue.

Here's our definitive answer:

The JERSEYS are retired, not the numbers. The Athletic Dept. did look into that before issuing those numbers [to Marques and Mi'Kyel].

It is fairly common to hang someone's jersey without taking the number out of circulation.

To retire the actual number would be a step above and would have to be reserved for truly unique accomplishments - i.e. National Player of the Year or Heisman Trophy winner.


And as you noted, we are re-doing the banners as part of our overall re-branding.

Hopefully this should clear up any confusion.