Ayegba Tears ACL
"He's worked extremely hard this past year but we know, in conjunction with our medical staff, that he will take the necessary steps to get back on the floor as soon as he can," said head coach John Thompson III to GUHoyas.com. Officials did not cite a return to play, but various reports online and on Twitter suggest Ayegba would miss the 2011-12 season as a result. The recovery time for ACL injuries is slow and challenging. Patients begin limited walking 2-4 weeks after surgery but a return to competitive sports may extend to six or more months depending on the extend of rehabilitation. Even if Ayegba could complete rehab by mid-February, he would lack the practice time to be effective in late season Big East games. Ayegba scored only 10 points in six games last season, but was expected to be a key backup for senior Henry Sims at center. Additional coverage follows below:
Entering the China trip, Georgetown has only five returning scholarship players with significant game experience:
Season-long injuries among Georgetown players are rare but not unheard of. Although players like Ruben Boumtje-Boumtje, Courtland Freeman and most recently Aaron Bowen have earned medical redshirts following injury, but in the past 40 years only two pre-season injuries have cost players an entire season. In 1978, lingering foot injuries cost Mike Frazier his junior season, from which he took a season off the team in order to recover. Frazier, who had averaged 1.2 points and 0.9 rebounds in 19 games, returned in 1979, averaging 4.7 points and 3.3 rebounds over his final two seasons. The most significant pre-season injury in modern Georgetown history was to Ralph Dalton, whose knee injury just prior to his freshman season was so severe he was out for entire 1981-82 season wore special shoes to account for the difference after the surgery. Dalton's mobility was affected but not his courage nor his determination, playing 132 games over a four year career from 1982-86 and averaging 4.0 points and 3.5 rebounds.
An exciting double overtime finish powered the team representing Clyde's Restaurant Group over The Tombs in the 2011 Kenner League championship. Details follow in this link to the HoyaTalk board .
Of course, before the Kenner League, players stayed closer to home during the summer. The Suffolk Times recounts the summer league efforts of Jim Christy (B'64), who went on to an outstanding Georgetown career in the early 1960's. "It was at Forest Park where Christy honed his game," writes Bob Liepa. "Nothing was organized. It was almost all half-court pickup games of three on three or four on four. Rarely were full-court games played. The half-court games helped players develop the concept of proper spacing and moving without the ball, said Christy. Christy was a 10th round draft pick of the New York Knicks, but turned down the offer and chose a career in teaching. "You wonder if things would have been different,” he said. “I don’t regret it for a moment. You wonder [about] the road not taken. I can’t imagine that it would be any better than the way things have been.”
The Maui Invitational has released its brackets for its 2011 tournament, with Georgetown facing Kansas at 7:00 pm HST (midnight EST) in the first round of the three day tournament on Nov. 21. The Jayhawks (35-3 in 2010-11) finished second in the AP poll last season and lost to Virginia Commonwealth in the regional finals. As part of the tournament, the Hoyas will host UNC-Greensboro on Nov. 14, although the Spartans will not travel to Maui.
Also announced: the Georgetown-Memphis game will be played on Thursday, Dec. 22, after students have left for Christmas break. The game will be seen on ESPN2.
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An injury suffered by sophomore center Moses Ayegba (C'14) in Thursday's Kenner League quarterfinals has been diagnosed as a tear of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), with reports suggesting he will miss most or all the 2011-12 season as a result.