Auburn’s Chuma Okeke, a potential first-round pick in this summer’s draft, suffered a torn ACL in his left knee in last night’s win over North Carolina, tweets Shams Charania of The Athletic. Surgery is set for Tuesday, according to Tom Green of AL.com.
The sophomore power forward collapsed to the court on a drive to the basket late in Friday’s regional semifinal game. He grabbed his left knee and remained down for several minutes before limping to the locker room with help from trainers.
“It’s just hard to take in,” teammate Bryce Brown said. “I don’t think Chuma deserves that at all.”
Okeke is listed 29th on the latest ESPN big board of draft prospects. He averaged 12.0 PPG this season and led the Tigers in rebounding, steals and overall plus/minus.
Figured that was the probably outcome.
His knee buckled inward, which isn’t a good thing
Auburn rolled anyway. Rooting against Barkely at this point.