By Ashley Dunkak
No one missed the pained expression on Jacob Pullen’s face after he landed on his right hand after going up for a basket in the second half of the Wildcats’ 75-70 win over Texas on Monday night. During the game, ESPN announcers reported that the early diagnosis was leaning toward a hand contusion but cautioned that it could be worse.
Of course, the automatic reaction was to freak out about K-State’s chances without its senior guard and locker room leader, whether his potential absence would affect the team’s NCAA tournament seed, etc. Fortunately for the Wildcats, it looks like none of those dire scenarios will be coming to fruition.
K-State sent out a press release saying that Pullen has a bruised right hand but that it will not cause him to miss any practice or games.
As far as the Wildcats’ sideline general Frank Martin, you may or may not have noticed him limping around in the past several weeks. While demonstrating a drill in practice some time ago, the head coach injured his knee, and the pain had been bad enough to cause him to lose sleep. As such was the case, he had surgery on the knee on Tuesday.
K-State’s release about Pullen also stated that Martin was “resting comfortably Tuesday after undergoing successful arthroscopic surgery on his right knee to repair torn cartilage” and that he was expected to be back at practice on Wednesday.
