KU Sports reports:
Kansas University women’s basketball coach Bonnie Henrickson has said
throughout the season that freshman forward Chelsea Gardner reminds her
of a younger Carolyn Davis.
Now, Henrickson — KU’s the eighth-year coach — will get to see how much.
Early Monday afternoon, Henrickson announced that Davis, a junior
forward from Houston who led KU in scoring (17.5 points per game) and
ranked in the top five nationally in field-goal percentage (60.2), would
miss the rest of the 2011-12 season after suffering a dislocated left
knee and torn anterior cruciate ligament during the early minutes of
Sunday’s 47-43 loss at Kansas State.
When the Jayhawks play at Iowa State on Wednesday, the 6-foot-3
Gardner will start in Davis’ spot. Until then, Henrickson and crew will
spend every waking minute trying to come up with a plan for moving on
without their All-Big-12-caliber forward.
“We have other games that we have to tend to, and we have to figure
out how we’re gonna work around this and just come together as a team,”
senior forward Aishah Sutherland said. “We have talented people on this
team. Carolyn was in the spotlight, but now we have other people that
can come into the spotlight, and we’re going to have be more of a
play-with-everybody type team.”
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