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Not the best news, but not the worst.
Azzi Fudd (torn ACL), Aubrey Griffin (torn ACL) and Caroline Ducharme (head) will all remain sidelined through the start of the season, Geno Auriemma revealed on Thursday. |
“None of them will be ready,” he said. “If I had to guess, I think Azzi would probably be back sooner than anybody else. Carol, I don't know — that's guesswork. Aubrey for sure will be after Azzi.” |
Fudd tore her ACL on Nov. 14 last year and didn’t have surgery to repair the knee until a few weeks later. Auriemma indicated that the team is comfortable with her current timetable. |
“Azzi is on her regular schedule,” he said. “We’re not going to see her playing 5-on-5 for a little bit.” |
Still, the Huskies are hopeful she’ll be back sooner rather than later. |
“Before we get into the biggest, most important parts of our schedule, I’m keeping my fingers crossed that she can be with us,” Auriemma said. |
Meanwhile, Griffin went down with a torn ACL in January, so she’s a few months behind Fudd in her recovery. It was always unlikely that she’d be back in time for the new season. |
“Aubrey hasn't hardly done anything, so she's probably the one that's (furthest off),” Auriemma said. |
As for Ducharme, she’s been plagued with head issues since her freshman year. She played in UConn’s first four games last season before bad turbulence on the team’s flight to the Cayman Islands shut her down the rest of the way. Ducharme remains out indefinitely. |
“She's trying to do as much as she can and then we try to see how it feels,” Auriemma said. “But for her, it's all kind of guesswork still. We’re see where that takes us.” |