LSU Guard Flau’Jae Johnson will remember the SEC tournament, Tigers coach Kim Mulki told the team’s radio station on Sunday.
Johnson has been struggling with swelling of Shin since Tigers’ damage to Texas on 16 February, Mulki said. Johnson on Sunday recalled the LSU’s termination of the LSU against Ole Miss, and is now expected to be sufficient to re-include the team by the beginning of the NCAA tournament.
“I know she is trying to fulfill the pain that she is,” Mulki said in the pregem show. “This is a stress fracture or nothing like that. It is simply comfort. We will take that swelling down, and we will see the flos that we need to see when the playoffs start.”
Sunday’s game was the only second competition that Johnson missed in his college career.
Junior is leading 18.9 points per game in this season, sixth best average in SEC, scoring on 46.5% shooting.
In his last game, however, Johnson scored a season-less six points, inspiring Mulki and his employees to get some recovery time.
“I don’t think the best basketball of Flau’Jae has been in the last few weeks,” Mulkey said, “So let’s rest it. Why put it through it, because it is not just worth it.”
The SEC tournament closed on Wednesday in Greenville, South Carolina.
