Golden Grizzlies Rookie Nick Daniels Out

The Oakland Golden Grizzlies have three of their four top scorers returning this season, including Travis

Bader, and the team is looking forward to their first season as a member of the Horizon League. 
Head coach Greg Kampe will be without freshman guard Nick Daniels for at least eight weeks because of a broken foot. 
Daniels, an all-state selection during his senior year at John Glenn High School in Westland, Mich., sustained the injury last Sunday in practice. 
This now makes three players the Golden Grizzlies are down, including senior forward Raphael Carter, who will miss the entire season after he was diagnosed with a femoral acetabular impingement, and senior guard Ryan Bass, who left the program last week. 
Oakland may have a decent season if leading scorer Bader (22.1 ppg), rebounder Corey Petros (8.2 rpg), and assist man Duke Mondy (5.1 apg) stay healthy. The team went 16-17 last season. The key for the team will be defense. Last season opponents shot 49.3% from the field overall and in Summit League play teams shot better than 50% than the Golden Grizzlies. However, because of their offensive skills, Oakland still won 10 league games. 
Reference: NBC Sports
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Washington's Wilcox Has Foot Surgery

University of Washington basketball player C. J. Wilcox had surgery on his foot a week ago Friday.
Wilcox suffered a left foot injury in early February and after a spectacular first half of the season when he posted more than 20 points per game, he rarely practiced and wore a walking boot when he wasn't playing.
According to a release, Wilcox had a stress fracture in his left foot, and the surgery was to stabilize his fifth metatarsal. He should be recovered in time for the start of the 2013-2014 season.
Wilcox pondered entering the NBA draft in April, but decided before the deadline to return to the Huskies for his senior year of college. Wilcox, a 6-foot-5 senior, averaged 16.8 points and shot almost 37 percent from the 3-point range last season.
Washington will lose their top three scorers after Wilcox, but guard Andrew Andrews, Shawn Kemp, Jr., and Desmond Simmons are returning next year. Key new players are Nigel Williams-Goss and transfer Perris Blackwell.
The team finished 18-16 last season, 9-9 in Pac-12 play before losing to BYU in the NIT. For the Huskies to remain competitive this upcoming season, they will need a healthy Wilcox.
Reference: CBS Sports.
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Indiana's Samuels To Have Second Foot Surgery

Monday Indiana State men's basketball player Mike Samuels had his second surgery on his right foot. He had surgery eight months ago when he broke his foot during the team's exhibition trip to theBahamas last August.

Head coach Greg Lansing said Samuels is taking this very hard. "He feels like he has let us and his teammates down. That's not the case, injuries happen," Lansing said. "It was a fluke thing on our Bahamas trip when he broke his foot and it happens to be a bone that doesn't heal."
The bone Lansing is referring to is the navicular bone, which can be tricky. Doctors tried to let it heal on its own after the first surgery in September, but it didn't. This surgery this time was a delicate process. "Have to take a bone out of his kneecap and put it in his arch," Lansing said.
As for a time table for Lansing to return to the game, Lansing has told reporters that they will err on the side of caution. The earliest Samuels, nicknamed Big Mike by his teammates, could return is January.
Samuels, a 6-foot-11, 285 pound center, was selected for the team because of his ability to guard big guys. "We took Mike so he could guard Creighton center Echenique, the big guys at Wichita State and Carmichael at Illinois State," said Lansing. "We thought we had the biggest guy in the league. He has a good touch and he would have been able to help us with 15-25 minutes a game. We've been without that, didn't have it last year, and we are going to be without it a lot next year."
The Sycamores are looking very thin on their front court, with just Justin Gant, Jake Kitchell, and TJ Bell. "We've been out on the road last couple of weekends at AAU events. Every staff in the country is looking for big guys," Lansing said. "I have the best staff in the country. We have searched the earth and have a lot of good connections. We are going to be just fine. If we have to play a little bit undersized next year, we will just have to play a little bit undersized and get people in a different way."
Reference: WTHIV10
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Montana's Ward Done For Season

Montana's leading scorer, Mathias Ward, is done for the season after undergoing foot surgery.
Ward hadn't played a game since sustaining an injury to the arch of his foot on February 16th in a win against Idaho State. He underwent surgery last Wednesday and the college career of the 6-7 senior from Gig Harbor, Washington is over. Ward hopes to play professionally, so having the surgery done now will give him time to heal and prepare for that opportunity.
"It was a deal where we were thinking about his future and getting that surgery done so that he might have opportunities to play in the future," said coach Wayne Tinkle in a statement released by the school. "It's just too bad it had to happen late in the season in his senior year. We will definitely miss him out on the floor."
Ward played in 118 games at Montana and started in 55. Overall he scored 933 points during his career with 324 rebounds. This season he played in 24 games, averaging 14.7 points per game, fifth in the Big Sky Conference. He earned "Big Sky Conference Player of the Week" honors twice and was also named to the Capital One Academic All-America Team.
"You lose a big scorer- obviously he was our leading scorer at almost 15 points a game," said assistant coach Jonathan Metzger-Jones. "He was very strong and could handle bigger players inside when he was on defense. He was strong enough to go up against players two to three inches bigger than him just because he was tough. And he brings an element to the offensive side where he can score inside but then also we could run some plays because he was such a good shooter to get him free on the perimeter. So those are things that we have to make up."
At senior night last Thursday, Ward was there, cheering on his teammates. "He said he would be at the game on crutches cheering us on and be there for senior night and go through the whole senior night procession," Metzger-Jones said.
With the Big Sky Conference in play, expect to see Will Cherry return from his broken foot.
Reference: NBC Sports and Montana Kaimin.
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UCONN's Napier Ends Streak At 102 Games

UCONN's Shabazz Napier had gone 102 games without missing, playing through foot and shoulder injuries.
That streak came to an end on Saturday when the pain in his foot made playing unthinkable.
"I woke up today and I didn't feel 100 percent or close to it, so I just told myself I wasn't going to play. I knew I couldn't play basketball today," said Napier, who watched Saturday's 61-55 loss to Cincinnati from the sidelines.
Napier's foot had been a problem most of last year and caused him to withdraw from the Puerto Rico team in the Olympics. He had surgery to correct a stress fracture, but the pounding up and down the court this season reinjured the bone. He reaggravated the injury in the game against Georgetown and did not practice last Friday. The team doctors are calling it a sprain.
Napier was ruled out 15 minutes before start time. Beforehand, he had been in a walking boot when he entered the arena, but never went out on the court. He received treatment and did exercises before the game.
"I still did treatment," said Napier. "I can play the next game, get ready for the next game. It was so difficult. One thing I don't like to do, I don't like to miss games. I've fought through a whole bunch of injuries, but this was one I couldn't do."
Napier pondered "getting ready at halftime," but he never made it out there.
"It was a game-time decision," said coach Kevin Ollie. "We went down there to the locker room and he couldn't play. We were already prepared for it. We practiced without him yesterday, Shabazz is going to get back, he's going to get back healthy and hopefully fight for us over these last two games. If not, everybody's going to have to step up."
Napier has averaged 17.1 points per game and while the team had 15 turnovers on Saturday, Ollie says they've had more in some games when Napier's handled the ball.
Reference: Hartford Courant.
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