Greg McDermott has built two Final Four caliber teams in four years consisting of entirely different players each time, and both potentially have been ended not by a loss in March but by an injury before they got that far. What in the world did Mac and Bluejay fans do to deserve this fate?
They’ve seen promising seasons derailed by injuries to key starters in three of the last four seasons: Maurice Watson in 2016-17, Martin Krampelj in 2017-18, and now Marcus Zegarowski in 2019-20. And the devastating injuries go back longer than that, really. Tyler McKinney’s eye injury in 2003-04.