Jerome Tang fearful K-State guard Ques Glover will miss season after latest injury
Ques Glover is back to where he started.
After missing the first 12 games of the season with a knee injury, the transfer guard was supposed to make his Kansas State debut when the Wildcats defeated Chicago State 62-55 on Tuesday at Bramlage Coliseum. But things didn’t work out that way.
Instead, Glover suffered another setback in practice this week and the 6-foot senior was forced to hobble around the arena on crutches and continue watching from the sideline.
K-State coach Jerome Tang struggled to explain the amount of bad luck and unfortunate timing involved with that development, calling it “a tough, tough break.”
“I don’t know if it was a misstep or a bump or whatever,” Tang said. “It was just one of those freak things. It’s the same knee, the same issue. I just feel so hurt for him, because he put in so much work in rehab.”
Tang doesn’t know exactly how long it will take Glover to recover from this injury, but he fears that it is season-ending.
“We have this rule on our staff about no bad news on game day,” Tang said. “So they haven’t given me the whole thing. But I knew it was bad news because nobody would tell me what the MRI said. So just walking up here, I was told that it’s possible he will need surgery. But they didn’t give me the whole details of everything yet.”
If Glover is, indeed, out for the remainder of the season, then the Wildcats (10-3) will have lost two players they were expecting big minutes from at the start of the year.
Nae’Qwan Tomlin transferred to Memphis after he was dismissed from the K-State basketball roster following a much-publicized arrest and suspension. Now Glover might not be able to suit up for the Wildcats, either.
K-State coaches had hoped that they could add reinforcements for the start of Big 12 play, which begins with a home game on Saturday against UCF. Glover is a senior guard who transferred to K-State after previously spending time at Florida and Samford. He averaged double digits in each of the past two seasons with the Bulldogs. His mixture of experience and talent could have given the Wildcats a major boost.
Tang saw it in practice during the brief time that Glover was healthy.
“Man, we had a full team out there at practice,” Tang said. “It looked pretty good. We worked on some things that we can do with two veteran guards out there that you can’t do when you don’t have the guard depth. It looked pretty good for three-and-a-half days.”
Tang was so worried about the possibility of Glover re-aggravating his injury that he held him out of K-State’s previous two games even though he was deemed healthy enough to play.
Unfortunately, that extra caution didn’t help.
“I’m glad we took as long as we did to bring him back,” Tang said. “He could have been back two weeks ago. But had we rushed him and this happened, we would have been sitting around thinking we rushed him back. We gave him every opportunity for that thing to heal. For some reason it didn’t or something else happened. Now it’s on to the next thing: What’s the next thing he can do and what’s the next thing we can do?”
This story was originally published January 2, 2024 at 11:12 PM with the headline "Jerome Tang fearful K-State guard Ques Glover will miss season after latest injury."