(12-07-2021, 11:28 AM)Card10Fan Wrote: I honestly was expecting the recovery timeline to be much longer. Thought it might be season ending. Wishing her a speedy recovery. i've grumbled about this before but as a fan the way Uconn comes out with a press release describing the injury and timeline is IMO the best approach. Stanford takes a different approach and stays mum about any injury leaving fans to speculate. The same type of release should have been provided when Haley went out with her knee injury or Dijonai but no one would say anything. '
I wonder how many games Uconn will lose without her? Hoping a few!
Assuming she comes back after 8 weeks, she will then miss the following games until Feb 8, 2022:
OOC:
12/09 - @ #30 Georgia Tech
12/11 - vs. #31 UCLA (neutral site)
12/19 - vs. #7 Loiusville
Big East:
12/29 - vs. Marquette
12/31 - @ DePaul
01/05 - @ Georgetown
01/07 - @ Villanova
01/09 - vs. Creighton
01/12 - @ Butler
01/15 - vs. Xavier
OOC:
01/17 - @ # 27 Oregon
Big East:
01/21 - vs. Seton Hall
01/23 - @ St. John's
OOC:
01/27 - @ #1 South Carolina
Big East:
01/30 - @ Providence
02/02 - @ Creighton
02/04 - vs. Butler
OOC:
02/06 - vs. #9 Tennessee
The most probable losses would be @ #30 Georgia Tech, #7 Louisville, @ #1 South Carolina,
and @ #27 Oregon (assuming that Oregon's currently injured Top 3 players SABALLY, PAOPAO
and ROGERS are already all playing for Oregon by 01/17)
I wouldn't be surprised if Geno does not use her services until the end of the regular season,
and just prepare her for the NCAA Tournament.
The silver lining to this is that Geno will be forced to play her back-up PG Nika MUHL and
his top 2 recruits from the Class of 2022 -#1 overall FUDD and #5 overall DUCHARME -
much more minutes than planned. With that, he will still have a very good 8-player rotation:
Starters:
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PF - Aaliyah EDWARDS #21 - Class of 2020
CC - Olivia NELSON-ODODA #5 - Class of 2018
SG - Chistyn WILLIAMS #1 - Class of 2018
SG - Evina WESTBROOK #2 - Class of 2017
PG - Nika MUHL
Reserves:
*******
PF/CC - Dorka JUHASZ
SG/PG - Azzi FUDD #1 - Class of 2021
SF/SG - Caroline DUCHARME #5 - Class of 2021