Freshman guard out indefinitely

Jordan Harris went from starting to not playing at all. Now there’s a possible explanation.

Harris, the freshman guard, has a bone chip and is out indefinitely, a team spokesman informed reporters over the weekend. Where exactly the bone chip is — as in what body part — and when the injury occurred were not specified.

“Until our medical people decide what to do with it, I won’t give you any more,” coach Mark Fox said. “I probably can’t tell you when it happened. He hadn’t played very much the last four or five games. It’s a situation that could require surgery, to be honest with you. Might not. But they’re still trying to work it out.”

Harris had not played in Georgia’s previous two games, the loss to Kentucky and win at Alabama. His minutes had been decreasing before that.

Harris started 12 games earlier in the year, including the first eight of SEC play. He’s averaging 5.2 points and 2 rebounds per game, and was 9 for 26 from 3-point range.

Georgia (17-12, 8-8 SEC) is already without its best player, junior forward Yante Maten, who sprained his knee early in the Kentucky game. Maten has been able to walk without crutches the past few days, but that doesn’t necessarily mean he’s any closer to returning.

“We’ve got the greatest training staff in the world and when we left town, he got to spend a couple days with Ron Courson, which is a real blessing, because Ron is so good,” Fox said of the football team’s athletic trainer. “(Maten has) been off crutches for two or three days . ... He’s nowhere close to playing. And so I really can’t give you anything more there. I wish I could.”