Indiana Women’s Basketball: Grace Berger Loses the Leg Brace on New Year’s Day

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — The brand new yr brings excellent news as Indiana ladies’s basketball senior guard Grace Berger was noticed strolling round at warmups and not using a leg brace forward of the Nebraska recreation.

Berger is not suited as much as play, however the leg brace that after prolonged from her higher proper thigh to her decrease ankle is gone. She’s sporting unfastened sweat pants however would not seem like hiding any massive brace.

In late November, the star level guard went down with a proper knee harm on the Las Vegas Invitational. Inside the Hoosiers’ third offensive possession, Berger fell to the ground clutching her knee. Indiana head coach Teri Moren even shed some tears within the publish recreation press convention.

When the Hoosiers returned dwelling that Sunday, Berger obtained an MRI and was dominated as out indefinitely. Nevertheless simply this week, Moren mentioned Berger is getting higher, and she or he’s happy together with her restoration course of. 

It was by no means revealed what sort of knee harm Berger had since groups often hold that info fairly personal, however it may be assumed it wasn’t something too detrimental since she’s strolling on it New Yr’s Day.

Indiana managed simply fantastic with out their star level guard and received seven video games with out her together with the Auburn one the place she first went down. Nevertheless, the aggressive Large Ten convention caught as much as No. 4 Indiana as Michigan State defeated the Hoosiers 83-78 on Thursday.

A selected return date for Berger almost definitely will not be revealed, however the lack of brace reveals she’s on her strategy to a sooner restoration than most anticipated.

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