MSU women’s basketball head coach Suzy Merchant announced Friday that sophomore guard Kiana Johnson and redshirt freshman forward Akyah Taylor have been suspended for the first nine games of the upcoming season, after NCAA guidelines “related to the receipt of extra benefits” were violated, according to a release by the MSU athletics department.
“Both Kiana and Akyah are good student-athletes that made a bad decision this summer,” Merchant said in a statement. “They will accept the consequences for their actions. We will move forward as a program.”
