Missing 44 consecutive games due to injury had to be tough for Florida center John Egbunu.
But for them be the final 44 games of his collegiate basketball career? Now that’s brutal.
The 6-foot-11, 265-pound center tore his ACL on Feb. 14, 2017, in a 19-point victory over Auburn two seasons ago. It forced him to miss the remaining 10 contests of his redshirt junior campaign. He then missed every second of what would have been his redshirt senior year in 2017-18.
It reminded me of the time I hurt my own knee two summers ago.