UH’s Marcus Sasser to miss rest of season – Houston Chronicle
Dec. 24, 2021 Updated: Dec. 24, 2021 9:14 p.m. Houston guard Marcus Sasser(0 )passes the sphere versus Texas State throughout the very first fifty percent of an NCAA university basketball video game Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2021, in Houston. (AP Photo/Justin Rex)
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College of Houston guard Marcus Sasser will certainly miss out on the rest of the period with a hairline crack in his left foot, he introduced Friday evening, yet an additional debilitating impact to a lineup currently wrecked by injuries.
“Year really did not finish exactly how I pictured, yet I’ll be back much better and also more powerful,” Sasser published on Instagram.
Sasser has a crack of the 5th metatarsal in his left foot that will certainly need surgical treatment.
Sasser, UH’s leading marker, has actually been handling a toe injury that maintained him out of a video game versus Louisiana-Lafayette on Dec. 14. Sasser played 31 mins in Wednesday’s sway Texas State.
The Cougars currently are playing without Tramon Mark, a predicted starter in the backcourt, that went through surgical procedure on his left shoulder Wednesday as well as is out for the period. One more beginning guard, Kyler Edwards, left Wednesday’s video game with a sprained ankle joint as well as guard Taze Moore has actually missed out on the last 2 video games with an unrevealed illness. Ahead Reggie Chaney has actually been taking care of a hand injury given that the begin of the period.
Sasser balanced 17.7 factors in 12 video games this period as well as led the American Athletic Conference in 3-pointers (45 ), 3-point field-goal percent (43.7) as well as swipes (26 ). The 45 3-pointers are linked for 6th across the country.
UH (11-2) starts protection of its AAC title on Tuesday versus Cincinnati at Fertitta Center.
Joseph Duarte has actually been a sporting activities press reporter for the Houston Chronicle given that August 1996. He presently covers university sports, concentrating on the University of Houston. Formerly, he discussed the Houston Astros from 1998-2002, Houston Texans from 2002-05 as well as the Texas Longhorns from 2005-09. He pertained to the Houston Chronicle as component of a teaching fellowship via the Sports Journalism Institute in 1995.
Updated: Dec. 24, 2021 9:14 p.m. Houston guard Marcus Sasser(0 )passes the sphere versus Texas State throughout the initial fifty percent of an NCAA university basketball video game Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2021, in Houston. Joseph Duarte has actually been a sporting activities press reporter for the Houston Chronicle given that August 1996. He presently covers university sports, concentrating on the University of Houston. Formerly, he composed concerning the Houston Astros from 1998-2002, Houston Texans from 2002-05 and also the Texas Longhorns from 2005-09.
