Deletion of Mike Mercer

Comment: Amateur basketball" is not a sport.  "Basketball" is a sport, and the highest level of the sport is either one of the professional leagues or, if an amateur, the Olympics or some equivalent international tournament.  I don't argue the guy probably has some mentions in the local paper.  However, I thought the guidelines in  superceded the general  criteria.  And I'm pretty sure  that precedent was that college athletes are not notable, with the |occasional |crystal balling permitted for those clearly about to turn pro
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:BIO||WP:N||WP:IAR||WP:CRYSTAL)

Comment: he's a starter for a Division I collegiate program - pretty clear guideline for keeping on  - "Competitors who have played or competed at the highest level in amateur sports." College athletics is also definitely the top-level of amateur basketball in the USA, that's why only collegians were allowed on the US Olympic basketball team until the professionals were allowed in the most recent Olympics dating back to the ,90s
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:BIO)

Comment: He's easily notable.   quite specifically includes amateurs who play at the highest level of their sport as likely to be notable.  Playing at the University of Georgia is playing in the NCAA Division I and in one of its major conferences (the Southeastern Conference), so it is playing at the highest level of the sport of amateur men's basketball.  As such, there is indeed media coverage of him.http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?s_hidethis=no&p_product=AT&p_theme=at&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_field_label-0=Author&p_field_label-1=title&p_bool_label-1=AND&s_dispstring=%22Mike%20Mercer%22%20AND%20date(all)&p_field_advanced-0=&p_text_advanced-0=(%22Mike%20Mercer%22)&xcal_numdocs=20&p_perpage=10&p_sort=_rank_:D&xcal_ranksort=4&xcal_useweights=yes http://www.onlineathens.com/cgi-bin/search/cqcgi/@ath_stories.env?CQ_LOGIN=&CQ_USER_NAME=guest&CQ_PASSWORD=guest&CQ_DO_QUERY=YES&CQ_EXPANSION_LEVEL=3&CQ_MAX_WILDCARD=1000&CQ_MAX_FUZZY_SPELLING=50&CQCNT_INIT=&CQ_DTF_ADVANCED_RESULTS=YES&CQ_CUR_LIBRARY=ath_stories&CQ_DOC_MARKUP_STYLE=7&CQ_QUERY_STRING=%22Mike+Mercer%22
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:BIO)