CHICAGO — One other key St. John’s participant is now battling an harm.
Simply when Deivon Smith recovered from the bruised proper shoulder that bothered him for a month, main scorer RJ Luis suffered a groin harm.
The Large East Participant of the Yr candidate missed his first sport of the 12 months in Wednesday evening’s 82-58 blasting of DePaul at Wintrust Enviornment.
“I would say RJ is probably going to miss Connecticut with a pulled groin,” coach Rick Pitino stated of Sunday’s sport on the Backyard. “This is new for RJ. But RJ is a baller, he wants to play. He has never had a pulled groin before. They can be difficult.”
Luis suffered the harm just a few days in the past. Pitino doesn’t count on to observe forward of Sunday, however stopped in need of ruling Luis out.
“I’d be guessing. I haven’t been right yet,” he joked. “Deivon [Smith] I thought would be out two to three weeks.”
Sadiku Ibine Ayo is all the time the primary man off the bench to cheer on his teammates. Wednesday evening was a task reversal.
The junior reserve, beginning instead of Luis, bought an opportunity to play large minutes, and he took benefit, scoring a career-high 15 factors and including 5 rebounds and two assists.
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He entered the evening with 20 factors on the season.
“He’s always happy for us, so today was our turn to be happy for him,” shut good friend Kadary Richmond stated. “He stays prepared, he’s always working, he never complains. I’m happy to see him have a game like this.”
Mentioned Ibine Ayo: “It’s amazing. Coach [Pitino] is always hard on me all the time. I think it pays off.”
