He ended his career in September 2011 after three years at Michigan State due to degenerative knee pain.
[4] Roe started and contributed often for the 2008-2009 Michigan State basketball team, averaging 18 minutes a game on the national runner-up Spartans.
[5] Increasingly effective as his knee healed, Roe was eventually named to the Big-Ten All Freshman Team.
[9] On September 29, 2011, Roe announced he was ending his basketball career due to degenerative knee pain, and would miss his senior year.
Roe was under contract for the film "Race to Judgement", a story covering the real-life 1973 murder of a young black woman in Howell, Michigan, that centers on the involvement of the Ku Klux Klan and Rev.