Virginia’s Hunter out for NCAA Tournament
Virginia forward De’Andre Hunter, the ACC’s sixth man of the year, will miss the NCAA Tournament with a broken left wrist.
The school says Hunter suffered the injury during the ACC Tournament, but did not say how.
He will have surgery Monday and miss 10-12 weeks.
Hunter, a redshirt freshman, averaged 9.2 points and 3.5 rebounds in 33 games for the top-ranked Cavaliers.
He reached double figures in 16 games and was Virginia’s leading scorer six times.
This is the second straight year they have lost a key player late in the season.
Last year, forward Isaiah Wilkins, this year’s ACC defensive player of the year, missed time with an illness.
Travis Fields Jr. and Ed Polite Jr. each scored 13 points to lift Radford to its first-ever NCAA Tournament win, 71-61 over LIU Brooklyn in the First Four on Tuesday night in Dayton,
Ohio.
Carlik Jones added 12 points and 10 rebounds for the Highlanders, who move on to face No. 1 seed Villanova on Thursday in Pittsburgh.
Radford, the Big South champion, is making its third tournament appearance and first since 2009.
LIU Brooklyn stayed within striking distance for much of the game and got to within a point with five minutes left, but a 9-1 surge by the Highlanders allowed them to close it out.
Radford downs LIU Brooklyn for first NCAA tourney win