Tough Pre-season

[TitleTown]

In addition to the well known injuries to Butler and Boykin the Huskies have also suffered a myriad of other less known injuries or sickness. Stewart was so sick with the Flu she could not make the trip to Orlando, Jefferson lost her voice, Tuck "felt something running down the court" and was shut down for 2 weeks, Nurse was held out 1 day and Chong did not practice at all the last 2 days according to Coach Auriemma. Not the ideal start to the season but hopefully this will be the worst of it for the Huskies this year.

 

[UcMiami]

Geno had an interesting take, which I think is probably true for any team athletics - basically said, this stuff is just standard operating procedure - no team is truly healthy from first practice to last game. There are always tweaks, and coughs, and you deal with it day by day.
Most of the issues are things we don't hear about because if it were a game day, most of the players would be available - during pre-season, you don't push anything because none of it counts towards your record.

Not of course speaking about Butler - that is not minor nor normal.

 

[Sonny44]

The Tuck part is the most disturbing to me.

 

[TitleTown]

The Tuck part is the most disturbing to me.

I was also most worried by the Tuck injury but supposedly it was just a mild hamstring pull and not related to the knee at all.

 

[Sonny44]

Whew, thanks.

 

[ricky]

Ucon is done without Tuck!!

 

[TitleTown]

Ucon is done without Tuck!!

First off Tuck is not hurt she is already back practicing and secondly UConn would win the National Championship regardless.