Am guessing a walk on might have a shorter string than a schollie player? Just a guess.
I'd think so.
That would be my guess too. Probably zero tolerance for a walk-on because they are representing the program more off the court than on the court. So anything that hurts their image and thus hurts the program image would be cause for dismissal. Plus as a freshman, she had not yet established a positive reputation to fall back on.
In all other respects, she seems like a quality kid. It's very hard to imagine what might have happened. Maybe she made a really bad mistake and now has to pay for it with bad publicity as well. Maybe it was something really minor that got taken to the extreme. She is the daughter of two former Cyclone athletes who have represented the university well, and hopefully she does too in the end.