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[QUOTE="Plebe, post: 2371559, member: 6927"]
Temple senior guard Alliya Butts tore her ACL in practice on Wednesday and is out for the season:
[URL="http://www.owlsports.com/news/2017/10/13/womens-basketball-alliya-butts-out-for-2017-18-season.aspx"]Alliya Butts Out for 2017-18 Season[/URL]

A similar fate has befallen Jessica Washington, a senior guard for Kansas who transferred from North Carolina after her sophomore year:
[URL="http://www.kansan.com/sports/washington-to-miss-season-with-acl-tear/article_e1b0bdf8-b06d-11e7-be82-e748f2eab561.html"]Washington to miss season with ACL tear[/URL]

These are major blows to the respective teams. Butts was one of only two returning starters from last year's NCAA tournament team, where she was the second-leading scorer. Tonya's rebuilding year at Temple just got that much harder.

Jessica Washington was by far Kansas' best player, averaging 17 ppg last year. Coach Schneider has some good recruits in the 2018 class, but Kansas might have to spend another year in the Big 12 cellar.

I suppose the only silver lining about tearing an ACL in the preseason is that it gives the player a full year to recover and rehab for next year.
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