If you are exploring the futures market or already filling out your bracket, you need to do a status check on these men’s college basketball player injuries first!
🏀🏀March 17, 2024 Update🏀🏀
1. Tyler Kolek – Oblique injury
Marquette basketball is making light of Tyler Kolek’s injury, alluding to how he wanted to play in the Big East Championship game. However, that oblique injury was serious enough to keep Kolek out for a championship game and an opportunity to become a 2 seed as opposed to a 3 or 4 seed. So it matters.
In this video from MU Wire Sports, you can see coach Shaka Smart talk about Tyler Kolek’s latest injury status.
Tyler Kolek shows flashes of John Stockton at point guard with his flashes of fundamental yet perfectly angled passes. He averages 7.6 assists and has also greatly improved his point production over his four years at Marquette. In his senior campaign, Kolek is averaging 15 points per game!
2. Hunter Dickinson and Kevin McCullar – KU stars unknown status
Even the Kansas City star is scrambling to find out the injury status of these two Kansas City stars. KU basketball’s performance in Kansas City during the Big 12 Tournament fell flat, thanks in large part to their absence. It is impossible to replace the production that both Hunter Dickinson and Kevin McCullar bring to KU Hoops. They got beat by 20 to Cincinati in the early rounds of that tournament.
Follow the Kansas City Star for updates.
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3. J’wan Roberts – Leg (bruise)
Houston’s big man enforcer (and improved hook shot shooter) J’wan Roberts was held out of the last two days of the Big 12 Tournament with what coach Kelvin Sampson is calling a bruise. And his loss was obviously felt as the Cougars got clobbered by the Iowa State Cyclones in the championship game. Coaches famously undersell injuries. We’re not saying that’s what’s happening here, but Roberts injury is obviously both watching closely. It’s important to not only check his pregame injury status, but watch how he is moving around once he’s back on the court. In his fourth season with Houston, the power forward/center is averaging 9 points and just shy of 7 rebounds per contest.
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Retired List: Similar to tequila on Tuesday nights for me, these players have been added to the retired list because either the injury is no longer relevant or their team is no longer in the NCAA Tournament.
Arkansas – Jalen Graham – shoulder
Auburn – Jaylin Williams – knee
Duke – Kyle Filipowski – ankle
Kentucky – Tre Mitchell – shoulder
Memphis – Malcolm Dandridge – academic
Seton Hall – Kadary Richmond – undisclosed
Related game notes:
3-2-2024 Auburn’s Jaylin Williams played and scored 10 points, 3 rebounds in win vs. Miss St.
3-3-2024 Memphis center Malcolm Dandridge was seen on the bench, but didn’t play in a wild win at home against UAB.
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