Keep an eye on yet another OSU basketball injury
Published: 2/6/2012 9:57 PM
Last Modified: 2/8/2012 3:53 PM
Keiton Page. JAMES GIBBARD/Tulsa World
Senior guard Keiton Page showed up for a Monday media availability session with a black eye. He said he was dealt a blow to his right eye on the second-to-last play during a Saturday loss to Baylor.
“I think there was a loose ball on the floor and I dove on it and that’s when Quincy Miller was coming in to get it too, so I just connected right with his knee, my eye to his knee,” Page said.
“Now I’ve got me a good-looking shiner.”
Page was asked what fictional story he would like to tell in regards to how he got the black eye. Said a smiling Page, “Some big guy came and tried to pick a fight with me after the game. He got the first (punch), but I let him have it after that.”
OSU had only six scholarship players available against Baylor, plus freshman walk-on Christien Sager, who was awarded a one-season scholarship. The Cowboys played without Philip Jurick, who is out for an indefinite period of time with a foot injury, and reserve point guard Cezar Guerrero, who has been suspended indefinitely for an unspecified violation of team rules.
Travis Ford was asked if he expects to get any players back for a Tuesday home game against Iowa State. Said the coach, “I don’t know yet. We will see. I wish I could answer that. I’ve got to check on some things at the end of the day and we will see how those went. We’ll see. I’m not in any hurry.”
Without calling Guerrero by name, Ford said he wants to make sure one player in particular is someone the Cowboys can count on every day in the future.
And Jurick? “Philip is coming around a littler quicker than I anticipated,” Ford said. “But I don’t think he will play tomorrow.”
--Jimmie Tramel.
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Jimmie Tramel
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