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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas, July 5 (UPI) -- Former Texas A&M-Corpus Christi guard Josh Washington has been denied his hopes of playing for the Mexico Olympic basketball team by bureaucratic red tape.
The Corpus-Christi Caller-Times reported Thursday Washington was told he could not play for the Mexican national team at the Summer Games at Beijing in 2008 because his ties to his maternal great-grandparents, natives of the country, extended back too far.
He received that information after surviving the final cuts and making the team.
"I was pretty disappointed," he told the newspaper. "I busted my butt to make the team, but I went back one generation too many. It is an experience that thousands of basketball players would like."
Washington graduated from Texas A&M C-C this spring.
He sank a school single-game record eight three-pointers during his senior season.
In Mexico he played against older, more experienced players in the pro league.
The Mexican team is guided by former Arkansas Coach Nolan Richardson.
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