Just last week college basketball coaches were preparing for the start of a new season. For Purdue head coach Matt Painter the start of this season is not going as he may have planned.
For the second time in just eight months Purude star forward Robbie Hummell is out with an ACL injury. Just like the last knee injury Hummel will be lost for the season as well.
The injury occurred in the first practice for the Boilermakers this season. Just like that a team that was being looked as a Final Four contender took a major step back in the pack.
A torn ACL is nothing new to Robbie Hummel though. In fact it is the same ACL that he injured at Minnesota last season that took him out for the rest of the year. The new injury will put him back in the very same position this year, and will undoubtedly hinder the Boilermakers chances at a conference championship this year.
Last season Hummel averaged just over 15 points per game as well as just a bit under seven rebounds per game. A considerable amount of production on a team that has already lost a key defensive player, Chris Kramer, to graduation after last season.
The departure of Hummel means that Purdue will now turn to the other two seniors, E'Twaun Moore and JaJuan Johnson, to pick up production. All on a team that features many young players, and many inexperience older players as well.
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