WACO, Texas -- Baylor basketball player Patrick Dennehy, a 6-foot-10, 230-pound center, has not been seen or heard from in two weeks, Bears head coach Dave Bliss said Wednesday.

The Waco Police Department is asking for anyone with information regarding Dennehy's whereabouts to contact them.

	Dennehy was a star at New Mexico. (Jim Thompson/Albuquerque Journal)

On Thursday, Dennehy's car was found. No other information was immediately available.

Investigators have checked hospitals and the McLennan County Jail, and have interviewed Dennehy's roommate, Chris Turk. Police have yet to find anything that would indicate foul play, a WPD release said.

Turk said he wasn't sure if he'd spoken with Dennehy before leaving for a music festival on June 11, but said that his roommate seemed fine when he left.

When Turk returned from the trip five days later, he said he didn't notify police of the disappearance because he didn't think anything was wrong.

"Everything looked normal, except for the dogs. They didn't have food and water," said Turk, noting that the dogs had lost a lot of weight. "I just figured he'd skipped town and was being irresponsible (because he left the animals without food)."

Dennehy, who played high school basketball in Santa Clara, Calif., sat out last season after transferring from the University of New Mexico and was expected to vie for playing time this fall. He has two years of eligibility remaining.

"It's unusual for our staff to go more than a couple of days without being in touch with one of our players, so obviously we are concerned about Patrick," Bliss said in a news release.

Dennehy's girlfriend of almost two years, Jessica De La Rosa, said she became worried when she hadn't heard from him in several days, and she began calling friends.

De La Rosa, who met Dennehy during her freshman year at the University of New Mexico, said the couple would speak at least five times a week.

"Usually somebody knows where he is," De La Rosa, a University of New Mexico junior, said in Thursday's editions of the Waco Tribune-Herald.

Dennehy had an impressive but controversial two-year stint at New Mexico under former Lobos coach Fran Fraschilla.

Midway through his freshman season, Dennehy said he was considering a transfer at year's end because of a lack of playing time. Dennehy eventually saw more action and became the third-leading freshman rebounder in school history.

As a sophomore in the 2001-02 season, Dennehy averaged 10.6 points and 7.5 rebounds, but his season was clouded by a number of problems. During a game against Air Force in February 2002, Dennehy argued on court with teammates, shoved a teammate, kicked over a chair and stalked off to the locker room. He didn't return to the game.

Fraschilla declined to discipline Dennehy, and the team doctor said Dennehy was being treated for "a confidential medical condition."

Fraschilla resigned under pressure in March 2002, and Ritchie McKay replaced him later that month. Less than two weeks later, Dennehy had another flare-up during workouts and McKay dismissed him from the team.

A month later, Dennehy announced he had accepted a scholarship to play for Bliss, a former New Mexico coach.