Strawberry To Miss Remainder Of Season With ACL Injury
1/19/2005 7:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
Jan. 19, 2005
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Maryland sophomore guard D.J. Strawberry will miss the remainder of the 2004-05 basketball season with a torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), head coach Gary Williams announced Wednesday. Strawberry, who is ranked among the ACC's steals leaders, was injured in practice earlier this week.
"We will miss D.J.'s aggressiveness and experience," said Williams. "D.J. is an outstanding team player. He is willing to do the `little things' that do not always show up on the stat sheet."
Strawberry is scheduled to have surgery on his right knee in early to mid-February. Maryland athletic trainer J.J. Bush indicated that surgery will not commence until swelling in the area subsides. Bush indicated six months of recovery time is normal in such cases.
One of the Terps' toughest defenders, and commonly referred to as the Terps' "sixth starter," Strawberry played in all 14 of the Terrapins' games this season, starting three. He averaged 21.4 minutes and 7.1 points per game, and was ranked 15th in the ACC with 24 steals on the season.
"I would like to thank all of the fans for their support since my arrival at Maryland," said Strawberry. "I promise all of them that I'll be working hard to rehab when the time comes. I want to come back from this as a better basketball player."
