Option committee to keep an eye on Embiid injury
The NCAA event choice committee will certainly be in contact with Kansas throughout the week concerning the injury standing of fresher center Joel Embiid, task force chair Ron Wellman stated.
Kansas revealed Monday that Embiid has a stress fracture in his back, will miss the Large 12 event this week in Kansas City, Mo., and is doubtful for the very first weekend break of the NCAA tournament. Embiid went to Los Angeles over the weekend break to view a spine specialist.
The Jayhawks are the top seed in the Huge 12 tournament and will certainly play the champion of No. 8 Oklahoma State vs. No. 9 Texas Tech in a Thursday quarterfinal competition.
"I can assure you it will be a comprehensive conversation regarding when he is going to be readily available, and we will be keeping an eye on and connecting with Kansas throughout the week concerning exactly what his accessibility will certainly be going ahead," Wellman stated.
There is precedent for this, with Arizona managing a back injury to Loren Woods in 2000 and Connecticut in 2004 with Emeka Okafor. The Wildcats' seed wasn't had an effect on, though Woods didn't play in the NCAA event that year. UConn's seed was dropped a line, yet Okafor played and the Huskies gained the title.
Wellman discussed exactly how the task force will certainly handle evaluating Kansas, which played three games without Embiid, going 2-1 with draw TCU and Texas Tech in your home and shedding at West Virginia. The last two games were last week, and the TCU game was previously in the conference season.
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"Do you reward teams wherefore they have done in the season, or do you forecast what they are going to do?" Wellman said. "If you are projecting what they are visiting do, then that injury obviously handles a lot more relevance. If you are awarding them wherefore they have done in the period, then you merely base your choices, whether it be selection or seeding, upon what they have actually revealed so far in the period and their achievements this season. I assume that is a conversation that we will certainly have in the committee room.".
Wellman is just one of 10 participants of the committee, and they all have an equivalent ballot on each team. Where does Wellman stand on whether to reward Kansas or penalize the Jayhawks for not having Embiid?
"I am probably one personally that sides on the honor side," Wellman stated. "Is it good or is it appropriate to punish a team and the other 11 players on that group because an individual is injured? I don't believe you entirely get rid of the truths that you have in front of you concerning an injury, yet I have the tendency to side directly, and I'm not promoting the committee on this, but directly I would possibly side on the award side of it.".
