Kentucky defend Jaxson Robinson, the crew’s second-leading scorer, will go through surgical treatment on his wrist and pass over the residue of the season, schoolmaster Mark Pope stated Saturday.
Robinson ignored 4 directly video games in February with the trauma, however gave the impression poised to go back this month Wednesday in opposition to Oklahoma. He most effective performed 12 mins in opposition to the Sooners sooner than reaggravating the trauma, then again, and was once dominated out of Saturday’s sport in opposition to Auburn.
Pope made the announcement then the Wildcats’ 94-78 loss to the Tigers.
“We kind of came to the final conclusion last night that he’s going to get surgery, so he’s going Wednesday to the world specialist to have surgery on his wrist,” he stated. “When he went down, we kind of knew that he was going to need surgery, but he just wanted so badly to play. He rehabbed it, and had an injection to try to make it functional, and then he was doing OK and then he went down in the first half at Oklahoma. …
“There’s simply deny means that he’s going with the intention to play games.”
It’s a three-month recovery, Pope said, meaning Robinson’s college career is over.
Robinson, a 6-foot-6 fifth-year senior, followed Pope from BYU to Kentucky last spring and started the first 23 games of the season for the Wildcats. He ends the campaign averaging 13.0 points and 3.5 rebounds, shooting nearly 38% from 3-point range.
Robinson enjoyed a breakout season last year under Pope, earning Big 12 Sixth Man of the Year honors after averaging 14.2 points. He began his college career at Texas A&M before transferring to Arkansas, where he also failed to carve out a consistent role. He then transferred to BYU to play under Pope and immediately started 30 games in his first campaign with the Cougars.
Kentucky has struggled with injuries this season, especially on the perimeter. Kerr Kriisa suffered a substructure trauma again in early December and has but to play games since present process surgical treatment, week Lamont Butler has ignored hour all through SEC play games with a shoulder trauma.
