While the women's basketball team's best player, Jerica Coley, is putting up All-America consideration numbers, the men's team's been laboring without its best player, senior guard DeJuan Wright. That ends Thursday at South Alabama when Wright returns from a leg injury suffered at Maryland, he said Tuesday afternoon.
The exact nature of the injury remains a minor mystery. Wright said when he went down, he knew instantly he'd be out for a while. Wright's 15.9 points per game and 8.7 rebounds obviously were missed as the Panthers went 1-7 without him. Head coach Isiah Thomas likens Wright to a great special teams player who swings the field and momentum with a couple of great plays.
At 4-13, the Panthers need somebody to open the parachute before there's a full-scale crash.
SWIMMING & DIVING
Sophomore Sonia Perez Arau won the 1000-yard freestyle, 200 backstroke, and the 400 Individual Medley, win Nos. 11-13 this season for Perez Arau, a team best. She won swimmer of the week.
Sabrina Beaupre, of course, won the diver of the week honor, her sixth in eight weeks this season.
Great news. Hopefully Flight-14 can provide a much needed spark.
Posted by: JulesFIU07 | January 17, 2012 at 06:24 PM
Over in the UM section, they're dripping news of football recruits, what about FIU?
Posted by: FIU on the rise | January 18, 2012 at 11:12 AM
DJN hasn't checked Rivals.com this week.
Posted by: The I | January 18, 2012 at 01:24 PM
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Posted by: Philadelphia House | January 19, 2012 at 08:26 AM