Re Bama, Blair said it was better for Carter to rehab back home in CS than travel
To not be on the bench to support her teammates for a home game is very different and the question needs to be asked and answered!

Fishing Fools said:

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Not sure if anyone noticed the game Carter went down in front of the other teams bench:

Not one Coach, Teammate, Radar, Ref, Opposing Coach, or Fan approached her while she lay on the court. Carter helped herself up and walked off the court up to the bench before a Teammate helped her to the locker room. This is telling that nobody wanted anything to do with her. At least have Radar check a player out who's in pain.

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This is garbage and you should be embarrassed to introduce it here. Chennedy has been a great teammate this year and last year. The only trouble was as a freshman with 2 girls who were selfish and wanted to be "the star". Call it jealousy or whatever you want but where are those other two now who chose to leave A&M to be a star and where will Chennedy be after her college career is over?

Chennedy made a basket against LSU and went down. The injury wasn't obvious because it involved her landing. A foul wasn't even called. LSU threw it in immediately and play went the other way to the opposite side of mid court before the refs stopped play. No one knew how injured she was. I don't think anyone even thought it was going to be serious at that immediate time. Ciera went down to the other side of mid-court and helped her come back and then N'dea joined before they made it to Radar. Radar could have been quicker but it isn't like a lot of trainers are particularly fast. I saw an injury for the other team this year where the head coach had to ask their trainer to go tend to a player because the trainer didn't see it even though the rest of the arena did see it. Radar isn't watching the game like a coach. He got there as quick as he could.

What and embarrassing and shameful take on this topic.

I will echo Gap's comments. Nothing about that play would have stopped play right away with LSU in control of the basketball.
I have no idea of her timetable to return but hopefully when she does she will be completely healthy for a big deep run

For what it's worth - after Carter got hurt and was sitting on the bench with the boot on - towards the end of the game as LSU was staying ahead, Carter took the boot off and put her shoe back on. She just kind of sat there and grinned up at Blair when he walked by. I think he just shook his head at her, but my impression was that she would have gone back in if needed.

cs69ag said:

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He totally avoided the question re Carter as it pertains to today's Mizzou game.
Sounds like he has no idea whether she will ever be back. Wonder if she went home this weekend?

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This presser was after the Mo. game...........He has been saying the same thing for 2 weeks....
just as they do in all sports......game time decision.....on a sprained ankle it is one thing to walk and another to jump up in air and come down with the weight on your ankle......think about how Carter shoots......she is always
about 2/3 feet in the air and half the time she lands and ends up on her ass.....that is alot of shock on your ankle......

mullokmotx said:

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Seems like there is a little advantage in keeping other teams guessing since there are only so many practice hours in a week. Maybe she is exploring having the same surgery that Tua had. And isn't Gary limited in what he can say due to medical privacy rules? Gary said today that the post players need to stay out of foul trouble and I think we can compete with most anyone if we can do that. BTHO Georgia Thursday!

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agree Garry cannot say very much about a medical problem....

and trust me he will keep the other coaches guessing as long as he can

I hope we are all overreacting to Carter's absence, and I truly feel that we are. I would have loved to have seen her on the bench supporting, but let's be honest, she is a phenom and perhaps a bit of a distraction. I think staying away keeps the team focused because they know she cannot lace up her shoes and bail them out. I'm sure she was in the building or the locker room watching. We are a much stronger team with her on the floor, but it's nice to see the team stringing together some wins and scoring in the 70s without her.