Usually the saying goes ‘Add insult to injury’ but in the case of the Illinois basketball team, the saying goes ‘Add injury to insult.’
The Illini lost their first game of the season to the North Florida Ospreys 93-81. They didn’t look great and they ran into a team that hit a ridiculous amount of three-pointers. In this loss the Illini also lost another player to injury.
Point guard Jaylon Tate went out of the game with a dislocated pinky finger. This injury was diagnosed as an open dislocation so Tate had surgery on the finger.