SPOKANE, Wash. — Alabama coach Nate Oats said Latrell Wrightsell Jr., who cleared out Sunday’s diversion with a head harm, is likely to play within the Blood red Tide’s Sweet 16 matchup another week in Los Angeles.
“Wrightsell will be able to play with us Thursday,” Oats said after Alabama’s 72-61 win over Fantastic Canyon within the moment round of the NCAA competition. “He got elbowed within the head, had a head injury. He’s had a few genuine terrible good fortune here of late, but we’re getting to be playing again and he can play with us once more on Thursday.”
Wrightsell cleared out the diversion with 6:
36 cleared out within the to begin with half after he endured a head damage whereas endeavoring to piece a shot. He was gone to to by Alabama’s preparing staff and was afterward taken to the locker room and did not return.
“We’re going to win this game for him so we can play on Thursday, and that’s what we did,” said Alabama’s Mark Sears, who led the Tide with 26 points on Sunday. “Once we came in at halftime, he was there dapping us up.” Due to a brain ailment, the 6-foot-3, 190-pound guard from Omaha missed four games earlier in the season. During his absence, Alabama dropped four out of six games from the end of the regular season to the SEC tournament.
After playing 11 minutes on Sunday, Wrightsell finished with two points and two fouls. This season, he has averaging 9.3 points while shooting 45.1% from the field and 44.9% from beyond the arc. “That’s my brother, for real,” Rylan Griffen said. “He is a native of the West Coast. Since he went there the previous year, he brought several friends and family with him. As soon as I joined the squad, I thought, “There’s no way that was his final game of the season.” I just wanted to make sure we got through because I know he wants to play.
“I know he didn’t need to induce harmed nowadays. He went out there and gave everything for us for the time he did play. So I was a bit, like let’s make beyond any doubt we make beyond any doubt Trelly encompasses a chance to play again for us this season.”
Alabama, the 4-seed within the West Locale, will play top-seeded North Carolina within the territorial elimination rounds another Thursday in Los Angeles.
“We play for each other each diversion,” said Moment Dioubate, who scored nine focuses within the last six minutes to lift Alabama to triumph. “We know how much Trelly needed to play in L.A., and so we seen how harmed he was once went out diversion, so we fair attempted to do everything able to for him.”
