Reports of a Binghamton University men’s basketball player’s alleged October indiscretions have become Internet fodder for some sports commentary outlets.

Sports Illustrated poked fun at the arrest of Malik Alvin, a 20-year-old junior transfer, in the “Campus Clicks” section of its Web site under the title “Dumb Arrest of the Day.”

Alvin was arrested by Town of Vestal police on Nov. 6, for the alleged assault of an elderly woman and theft on Oct. 26. Police said Alvin was fleeing from Wal-Mart, where he was allegedly stealing a 36-pack of Trojan Magnum Condoms when he knocked over a 66-year-old woman, inflicting a concussion.

“Pretty dumb, considering most university health centers constantly dish out free prophylactics and rejoice in song while doing so,” wrote Sports Illustrated’s Mallory Rubin. “Though, perhaps Alvin just wanted all the ladies out there to know he wears Magnums, in which case, we say it was a rather savvy PR move.”

Alvin, who has been suspended from the team, was recruited by second-year head coach Kevin Broadus. Broadus’ recruiting tactics at Georgetown, where he served as an assistant prior to coming to BU, were called into question by a New York Times article in March 2007. Other members of this year’s recruiting class came to BU with past disciplinary issues.

BU’s men’s basketball team had already been thrown into the spotlight this summer when a former player, Miladin Kovacevic, allegedly put another student in a coma and then fled the country.

“We haven’t thrown him out of school; we’re going to deal with it,” Broadus said of Alvin and his situation. “It’s not something we tell our kids to do, we’re not for it, we just have to deal with it now. It’s in the hands of the court and the systems.”

The attention Alvin has drawn is “unfortunate” according to John Hartrick, Binghamton University’s Assistant Director of Athletics for Communications.

Hartrick said he does not expect there to be any disciplinary action taken by the America East Conference or the NCAA.

“The most important thing is Malik is embarrassed,” he said. “He’s been extremely cooperative with the department as well as law enforcement people and he regrets this in a way I don’t think anybody can know.”

“To get to know him, he’s a good kid who realizes he made a foolish mistake and he feels badly about it.”

Busted Coverage, a Web site, questioned Alvin’s thinking the afternoon of Oct. 26, the day of the alleged crimes: “C’mon brah, you can’t possibly be stupid enough to go five-finger discount on 36 condoms at 2 p.m. in the afternoon.”

The Web site also found four photos of a man its writers identify as Alvin. The man is holding a large sum of paper currency in one shot, and in another wearing a Binghamton University sweatshirt in what appears to be the Vestal Wal-Mart where the alleged incident occurred — ironies the Web site played off of.

“All it would have taken was one bill to purchase those condoms, and you would have had change,” reads one photo caption, directed toward Alvin.

Deadspin.com highlighted the story and drew comparisons to an Eastern Kentucky football player who was arraigned on “douche-stealing charges and running over a 69-year-old woman during his getaway attempt” at another Wal-Mart this summer.

Newsday, FOXSports.com and the Philadelphia Daily News — Alvin’s hometown paper — also covered the event.