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Michael Lawson, who left the Cal basketball program last season before ever playing a game, will redshirt the upcoming season before returning to the team for the 2002-03 season. 

Lawson, a guard from Martinez, enrolled as a full-time student at Diablo Valley Community College in Stockton after withdrawing from Cal before the start of the last school year. Since he did not receive an Associate of Arts, he is ineligible to play the upcoming season according to NCAA regulations. Lawson will rejoin the program as a walk-on.