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rinze Onuaku’s awkward-looking injury during the Syracuse-Georgetown game Thursday brought a lot of, pardon me here, knee-jerk reaction.
How bad is it?
Oh, it looked bad.
Is he done for the year?
Was it a bad sprain? Certain ligament damage?
If he’s out, Syracuse shouldn’t be a 1-seed.
And it certainly can’t win the national title.
Well, everyone can calm down because the University revealed the nature of his injury earlier today. It’s only a quad injury and it’s one that probably won’t affect Onuaku being in the starting lineup when Syracuse gets whatever peon it’s assigned to play against on Thursday or Friday.
My question is: How bad is the injury really and, well, what is the injury? Yes, it’s to a quad, but Syracuse closed off the majority of its practice today (not standard) and it’s unclear what’s exactly wrong with the quad. What’s he rehabbing?
The news that the injury isn’t season-ending is good, but can we considering that Syracuse is hedging just a little bit? It’s very possible Onuaku will give it a go but still fight through some considerable pain. The 1-seed means a lot to this team and I think we could have a case of the program nice-ing up the injury. Not to say he won’t play, but he could still very well only be at 75 percent or so. This is blind speculation on my part, but the lack of specifics of the quad injury itself and a timetable makes me question it, is all.
Still, it looks like Arinze’s mom was right all along.
MRI on Onuaku reveals quad injury {Post-Standard}
