Very Sad News:Tre Mitchell To embark on Surgery Today As Shoulder Injury Persists After Auburn Showdown…

Earlier this week, the Kentucky men’s basketball team finally got its first experience with a full-strength roster this season.

In Tuesday night’s win over Ole Miss, the Wildcats had all 16 players available for the first time as fifth-year forward Tre Mitchell returned from a two-game absence due to a back injur

But that clean bill of health was short-lived for coach John Calipari’s team: Mitchell left the Ole Miss game with 16:13 to go in the contest with a left shoulder injury and didn’t return. After getting checked out on the UK bench, Mitchell left for the Kentucky locker room and didn’t return to the Rupp Arena floor.Mitchell’s impact was felt in his 21 minutes on the court: In the first half alone, Mitchell had five points and five rebounds, along with two assists. He led the Wildcats in first-half plus-minus at plus-1

Afterward, Calipari said Mitchell went for X-rays, and he had no further injury updat

Mitchell’s injury was singificant enough to cause him to also miss UK’s next game, an impressive 70-59 road win on Saturday night at Auburn.Calipari told UK’s pregame radio show Saturday that Mitchel wouldn’t be available to play against the Tigers, and Calipari didn’t mention Mitchell during his postgame press conferenc

This marked the third missed game of the season for Mitchell. He previously missed a pair of games with a back injur

Sophomore Adou Thiero started in Mitchell’s place and recorded 14 points and eight rebounds. Thiero made all six of his free throws and had several highlight-reel dunks in the big Kentucky wi

Thiero played a career-high 33 minutes in the wi

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