Friars’ Hopkins again has season end with injury

Jeff BorzelloJan 27, 2025, 03:59 PM ET

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• Basketball recruiting insider.
• Joined ESPN in 2014.
• Graduate of University of Delaware.Providence star forward Bryce Hopkins will miss out on the rest of the season with a knee injury, coach Kim English stated on his local tv show.Hopkins suffered a torn ACL last January and didn’t go back to game action until Dec. 3 of this season. He played 3 games before suffering a bone contusion and has actually missed the last nine games. “He’s not going to play for the rest of this season,”English stated on WPRI in Rhode Island.

  “And I get it. I get it, with him losing his junior season in 2015 after playing in 13 games. “”We didn’t want it to be a thing where Bryce is handling his knee game-to-game, playing half a season,”English added.” He’s going to get a redshirt and we’re going to start our concentrate on getting him right for next season.” Hopkins, a 6-foot-7 forward, invested his freshman season at Kentucky before moving to Providence in 2022. He earned first-team All-Big East honors as a sophomore and was balancing 15.5 points and 8.6 rebounds last season before suffering a knee injury.He was named preseason first-team All-Big East prior to this season and balanced 17 points, 7.7 rebounds and 3 helps in his 3 games.Providence(

  10-10, 4-5 Big East)heads to Seton Hall on Tuesday.