Brutal news for Fighting Illini Basketball. The program has just announced that senior point guard Tracy Abrams will miss the upcoming season with torn left achilles tendon; he suffered the injury during practice on Monday.
Here is the press release that Illinois just issued:
Fighting Illini redshirt senior guard Tracy Abrams (Chicago, Ill./Mount Carmel H.S.) will miss the 2015-16 season after suffering a torn left Achilles tendon on Monday during practice for Illinois' Aug. 9-19 European trip. His surgery has yet to be scheduled.
"First of all, my heart goes out to Tracy," head coach John Groce said.