Syracuse, N.Y. — West Virginia University announced today on social media and on its sports website that Jesse Edwards will miss four weeks of the college basketball season because of a fracture in his right wrist.
Edwards is a fifth-year senior who transferred from Syracuse to West Virginia following the 2022-23 season. A starter at center, he averaged 14.8 points and 8.7 rebounds per game before the injury occurred.
Oddly, Edwards broke his left wrist in a game against Boston College in February 2022. That wrist injury caused him to miss the rest of Syracuse’s season. An x-ray that year revealed a break of the Scaphoid bone, a small bone at the base of the wrist that can impact blood flow in the area.
Edwards needed surgery, a cast and could not play basketball for six weeks.
It’s unclear from West Virginia’s release how significant this latest injury is, though MetroNews, a website in West Virginia, said he would have surgery this week to fix the problem. The injury occurred during a game against Massachusetts on Saturday.
Edwards chose to leave the Orange for West Virginia after last season and has played well on a Mountaineers team that had a tumultuous offseason and has played with a limited roster for various reasons. According to the website ShotQuality, he is averaging 1.21 points per possession, which ranks in the 88th percentile nationally.
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