Kansas State Wildcats will be without one of their veteran guards for next 6-8 weeks
The college basketball season is less than a week old, but Kansas State is already dealing with some unfortunate injury news.
The Wildcats will be without senior guard Ques Glover for a substantial part of the year as he works to recover from a left knee injury, according to head coach Jerome Tang.
Shortly after Glover was spotted walking on crutches at the K-State practice facility on Wednesday, Tang told reporters that the Florida/Samford transfer will be sidelined for the next 6 to 8 weeks.
That means he could miss more than a dozen games for the Wildcats and remain out for the rest of the fall semester.
“They are saying it is a 4-to-6 week thing, but we are really going to take our time with him,” Tang said. “His other times of going through this similar thing ... I felt like they might have rushed him back. I don’t want to do that. I want this young man to be healthy for the rest of his life.
“So we are on the 6-to-8 week approach. We had him for a while where I thought he looked like the Ques Glover I saw on film his junior year and even some at Florida, and then the knee started acting up again. We want him to be patient for the rest of his life, so we are going to be very patient with his recovery.”
Glover began his college basketball career at Florida and then transferred to Samford, where he became a productive player over the past two seasons. After averaging 19.2 points as a junior and then 14.7 points last year, he decided to move on to K-State as a graduate transfer.
He was a late addition for the Wildcats, but Tang viewed him as a potentially valuable member of the team nonetheless.
Glover showed off his skills during an exhibition game against Emporia State last week when he came off the bench to score five points and send out three assists in seven minutes of action. He was unable to play any longer because he suffered an injury.
At the time, Tang was hopeful that Glover wasn’t dealing with anything serious. Now he knows the full extent of the injury. And Glover will be sidelined for much of the season.
His injury is bad news for K-State, because the Wildcats will have to rely on mostly inexperienced freshmen guards without him.
This story was originally published November 8, 2023 at 2:17 PM with the headline "Kansas State Wildcats will be without one of their veteran guards for next 6-8 weeks ."