Purdue kicked guard Kelsey Barlow off the basketball team yesterday and suspended swingman D.J. Byrd for one game following an early-morning incident at a bar.

Police in West Lafayette, Ind., said officers were called to Where Else bar near the Purdue campus just before

3 a.m. after a disturbance. Police are investigating an allegation that Byrd assaulted one of the bar’s bouncers. Police said Barlow had been kicked out of the bar earlier that night, then told bar staff he had left his wallet inside but was not allowed back in.

Byrd was arrested for public intoxication and spent five hours in jail. He is shooting 45 percent from three-point range and will miss Sunday’s home game against seventh-ranked Michigan State.

Barlow, a 6-foot-5 guard, started 22 of 26 games this season and averaged eight points. He was suspended just before last year’s NCAA Tournament for conduct detrimental to the team.

• Paul Hill, the father of Ohio State women’s player Tayler Hill and former men’s player P.J. Hill and an AAU basketball coach, was sentenced to six months in the Hennepin County (Minn.) workhouse and probation for firing a gun at a player’s father in Minneapolis.

Hill, 45, pleaded guilty to second-degree assault last week for the September 2011 incident outside a YWCA. No one was injured.


• The Texas Supreme Court denied Mike Leach’s appeal in his wrongful termination lawsuit against Texas Tech.

The court rejected the former Red Raiders coach’s appeal without comment more than two years after he was fired by the university amid allegations that he mistreated a player with a concussion. Leach was recently hired as coach at Washington State.