Projected starter for UNI breaks foot

[Da Coach]

Carlton Reed, a 6'4", 195 pound guard, was expected to start and provide scoring for UNI this year. He initially enrolled at Iowa, but left after his sophmore year, and sat out last year at UNI.

http://unipanthers.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/mtt/reed_carlton00.html

He was Iowa's Mr. Basketball in 2004. He is from Waterloo East High School, the same school Tyrone Cole-Scott is from, Waterloo, East--

http://www.bubraves.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=19333&SPID=1498&DB_OEM_ID=3400&ATCLID=1279505&Q_SEASON=2007

Reed played very well for UNI at the World University Games in Thailand in early August, but broke his right foot. He has recovered from that injury, but now has broken the same small bone in his left foot. Tough luck. He will be out for about 6 weeks.

[tornado]

Lucas O'Rear, a fine incoming freshman at UNI, from Nashville, IL, has been hobbled by a knee sprain and has missed several practices, UNI dismissed Matt Culliver who was going to battle for minutes playing PG, of course one UNI commit renegged (Mike Bizoukas) and went elsewhere, center Jordan Eglseder has been having back problems, and now the Panthers are really down to only one experienced PG option, sophomore Kwadzo Ahelegbe.
This is really tough news for the Panthers when we are only a little more than a week from the start of play.

Carlton Reed required surgery and pinning of the bone in his right foot, and still wasn't fully recovered and practicing full time, so with this new fracture in his left foot, they predict 4-6 weeks, but it could be longer since he's already way behind on conditioning.

[Da Coach]

Even Kwadzo Ahelegbe is coming off his own injury problems. He injured his knee while practicing for the games in Thailand, and missed several weeks of play/practice. But it sounds like he is OK now.

http://www.wcfcourier.com/articles/2007/10/21/sports/local/doc471ad5a9953e6334798544.txt

[Da Coach]

Even more bad news for the UNI panthers. Sophomore point guard Kwadzo Ahelegbe will miss at least the next three weeks with a torn labrum in his right shoulder.

http://www.wcfcourier.com/articles/2007/10/26/news/breaking_news/doc4722348cb0170361211536.txt

[tornado]

Wow-- that is a tough injury to get it to heal right in a hurry, and it is his shooting arm.
Here is what that article goes on to say......

"Ahelegbe will spend the next three weeks rehabilitating ...
....If it responds well, he won't be 100 percent but we're hopeful he'll able to play.
If it doesn't respond well through rehab, there would be the possibility of surgery."


This is exactly the same injury that Nate Funk had in 2005-2006 but Funk had it in his left shoulder.
"During the 2005-06 season, he was forced to sit out the rest of the season and
undergo surgery after injuring his labrum while diving for a loose ball"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nate_Funk

He tried to rehab it and play but was unable and had to have surgery.
If Ahelegbe requires surgery, you can bank it that he'd be done for the entire season and take a redshirt year.

This is already getting eerie, with almost every other Valley team having injury problems, and yet the Braves have not
since JC's shoulder dislocation last summer. You kinda wonder ...can BU continue to escape the injuries and will the
problems some of the othe teams are having hurt the strength of the Valley, which in turn hurts everyone in the Valley's RPI.

We not only need for BU to stay strong and healty, but I hope the rest of the MVC teams can stay strong as well.

[PTTB]

http://www.wcfcourier.com/articles/2007/10/31/sports/local/doc4728a7b18ae2a827064490.txt

Looks like UNI is going to try to bring Coleman off the bench this year. From Pre-season 1st team to leading 6th Man Award contender (can a guy get both in the post-season?). UNI will start a walk-on true freshman, a senior, a redshirt freshman, and two sophomores. This is the same lineup UNI started in Thailand the majority of their games (minus Lundberg, insert McKowen).

PG-Lundberg
SG-Josten
SF-Dunham
PF-Koch
C- Eglseder

Bench: Travis Brown (Jr.), Eric Coleman (Sr.), Lucas O'Rear (Fr.), Adam Viet (Sr.), Jon Montgomery (Fr.)

My guess is that Reed will start at the 2 when he gets back in 4-5 weeks, and then move Josten to the 1 (unless Kwadzo comes back to take the point position and then Dunham might get moved to a 2nd stringer). Alot of youth out there, but the experience in Thailand should have helped this team. Just thought I would post an update.

[tornado]

Ha, ha....it is only for an exhibition game, and who knows....maybe he has an undisclosed injury.
Let's face it, the Panther can probably beat their D-II opponent with five walkons in the starting lineup.
I guess all I can say is that I don't expect this to be the starting lineup when UNI plays a conference game.

[BUBraves06]

Ha, ha....it is only for an exhibition game, and who knows....maybe he has an undisclosed injury.
Let's face it, the Panther can probably beat their D-II opponent with five walkons in the starting lineup.
I guess all I can say is that I don't expect this to be the starting lineup when UNI plays a conference game.

I agree T. I can't see Coleman coming off the bench all year. No matter how well two guys play together, Coleman may be the best forward in the conference and I don't see the point of letting him start the game on the bench.

[PTTB]

I don't know. I have thought that Koch/Eglseder might be the starters for a while. They do play well together, and let's face it, Eglseder and Coleman don't play the greatest together (not out of selfishness, it's just that they play the same position). Coleman can't play on the perimeter, whereas Eglseder can shoot from the perimeter, but defensively, Eglseder can't play out there, and Coleman has had his struggles.

I'm serious...don't be surprised if this isn't the post player lineup this year. And, there are no Coleman injuries...this is just the lineup they played in Thailand.