[81alum]

Interesting point, Garvin, but there is an even more recent example to ponder.  JJ Hones was removed from the team prior to her redshirt senior year, which would have been 10-11.  The official roster 10-11 lists just 14 players.  So I am not sure if JJ got the firth year scholarship even though she was not on the team, or whether she was granted it and forfeited it and it went unused, or whether it was just as simple as not extending her a redshirt season after all.  Probably the latter.  The dismissal was in May after the season was over but just slightly before her four years as an undergraduate would have been up.

The news story on JJ goes on to say this:

Hones was just the second player kicked off the team during VanDerveer's stellar 24-year tenure on The Farm. Tanda Rucker, a member of the Cardinal's second NCAA title team in 1992, was dismissed from the program in '93.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncw/news/story?id=5184667

Losing JJ was very sad.  What I remember most about her was her stellar 3/6 three point performance to help beat UConn in the national semis in 2008. 

[81alum]

Interesting point, Garvin, but there is an even more recent example to ponder.  JJ Hones was removed from the team prior to her redshirt senior year, which would have been 10-11.  The official roster 10-11 lists just 14 players.  So I am not sure if JJ got the firth year scholarship even though she was not on the team, or whether she was granted it and forfeited it and it went unused, or whether it was just as simple as not extending her a redshirt season after all.  Probably the latter.  The dismissal was in May after the season was over but just slightly before her four years as an undergraduate would have been up.

The news story on JJ goes on to say this:

Hones was just the second player kicked off the team during VanDerveer's stellar 24-year tenure on The Farm. Tanda Rucker, a member of the Cardinal's second NCAA title team in 1992, was dismissed from the program in '93.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncw/news/story?id=5184667

Losing JJ was very sad.  What I remember most about her was her stellar 3/6 three point performance to help beat UConn in the national semis in 2008.