{"id":587370,"date":"2026-04-05T16:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T16:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/587370\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T16:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T16:28:10","slug":"uconns-solo-ball-uncertain-for-ncaa-tournament-title-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/587370\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn’s Solo Ball uncertain for NCAA tournament title game"},"content":{"rendered":"

UConn<\/a> guard Solo Ball<\/a> has a foot injury and will not practice Sunday as the Huskies prepare to face Michigan<\/a> in the men’s NCAA tournament championship game.<\/p>\n

UConn coach Dan Hurley told reporters that Ball has “some type of a foot sprain” and is in a walking boot. His status is uncertain for Monday night’s title game against the favored Wolverines, according to Hurley.<\/p>\n

“I couldn’t tell,” Hurley responded, when asked whether Ball will play Monday. “We’ll know more as we get later in the day.”<\/p>\n

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Hurley added that he wasn’t sure whether Ball would be able to undergo an MRI on Sunday since it’s Easter. He did not immediately disclose when Ball, the Huskies’ third-leading scorer, suffered the injury during their 71-62 victory over Illinois<\/a> in the semifinals.<\/p>\n

Ball is averaging 12.9 points and 3.1 rebounds while starting all 38 games this season for UConn. The 6-foot-4 junior shook off a recent slump to score 13 points, shooting 3-of-7 from 3-point range, in the Huskies’ win over the Illini.<\/p>\n

If Ball is unable to play Monday, senior guard Malachi Smith<\/a> and junior wing Jayden Ross<\/a> figure to see increased playing time for the Huskies, who were listed as a 6.5-point underdog vs. the Wolverines on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UConn guard Solo Ball has a foot injury and will not practice Sunday as the Huskies prepare to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-587370","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}