Freshman Fischer suffers sprained left shoulder in scrimmage

Thursday afternoon, just a day before the first official practice, IU men’s basketball team announced another freshman injury from a workout.

Freshman center Luke Fischer will be out “for a few weeks” after suffering a sprained left shoulder during a scrimmage earlier this week.

IU Coach Tom Crean said in a press release that Fischer, one of IU’s two listed centers on this season’s roster, had been showing a lot of improvement this off-season before his setback.

“Luke has made great strides and was playing with great confidence,” Crean said in the press release. “He was being aggressive in his pursuit for the basketball when it
happened.”

Earlier this week on Monday, the program announced that fellow freshman Troy Williams would miss the next few weeks after suffering an injury to his right hand during a workout.

In Thursday’s release, the athletic department also announced two players hindered by injuries last season, redshirt sophomore Austin Etherington and sophomore Peter Jurkin, would be ready to go for the start of official practice today.

Etherington suffered a fractured left patella against Central Connecticut State just seven games into the season last year and said Thursday he’s finally back to 100 percent. Jurkin was plagued last year by a lower leg injury after he sat out the first nine regular season games due to NCAA sanctions.

— Nathan Brown