D1 Basketball Player Details Bizarre Practice In Football Pads That Ended In Chaos Before Transfer

Dylan Canoville has bounced around a few different schools throughout his college basketball career. The 6-foot-5 forward recently detailed a bizarre incident that occurred at a previous stop on social media.

The scene took place at practice following an embarrassing loss to an instate rival. Southeastern Louisiana players were forced to wear football pads in the coach’s attempt to toughen up his roster.

Canoville started his career at Copiah-Lincoln Community College in Mississippi. There, he earned Third-Team NJCAA honors while also being named the Mississippi Association of Community Colleges Conference Player of the Year.

He then moved onto Southeastern Louisiana.

Dylan Canoville described a bizarre college basketball fight at SLU.

The forward played one season with the Lions where he averaged three points a night across 28 games. He missed some time with injury early on in the year.

While recovering, his team limped out to a 2-8 start. That eighth loss came in blowout fashion to Louisiana Tech, 89-60. Southeastern Louisiana was outrebounded 40-32 while allowing 13 offensive boards.

The embarrassing performance led the Lions’ coaching staff to take action. Players were forced to wear football pads at the next practice.

Canoville, who was looking to ease back into the lineup at the time, detailed that chaotic experience.

“I’m gonna tell y’all about the time we wore full football pads in practice at my D1 school,” he said in a post on TikTok. “Three or four weeks before, I broke my nose. I had surgery… I’m trying to ease my way back.

“I don’t know which team we lost to, it was probably Western Michigan or Louisiana Tech, but we got our a– beat. Our coach came in at the end of the game and was like, ‘You guys are soft. I got something for y’all.’

“We come back to practice the next day… I see this man yelling at the managers to go get the football gear… [They] come back with full pads at practice.”

Did it work?

The first thought would be no. The immediate result was a fight between a pair of college basketball teammates.

Dylan Canoville, however, did admit that it might’ve had a positive impact.

“I guess it worked, because we didn’t get outrebounded the next game,” he said at the close of the clip. “You know what? W coach.”

Southeastern Louisiana would actually go onto win its next four games. They went 13-9 with a 10-8 mark in conference play in the contests following the practice.

Canoville transferred to Jackson State after the fact, where he’d later go viral for throwing his shoe at a Kentucky opponent.

He announced another transfer portal entry after one season with the Tigers.