Boiler guard has surgery,
may miss season
By Purdue Sports Information
One of the few players who remained healthy throughout
the 2000-2001 basketball season may be out for the entire 2001-2002
season.
Kenneth Lowe, a junior guard from Gary, Ind., had
three hours of surgery on his right shoulder to repair an instability
problem Aug. 9 in Indianapolis.
"Everything went well," Purdue coach Gene Keady
said. "Kenneth's out of surgery and back home resting."
Lowe will be out for the first few months of the
season while he recovers from the surgery. Doctors will re-evaluate
the shoulder in late December or early January to see if Lowe can play
in the 2001-2002 season. Lowe may opt to take a redshirt season and
maintain his two remaining years of eligibility.
Lowe's shoulder was often wrapped with an Ace bandage
last season, but he didn't let that keep him from starting 31 of Purdue's
32 games, playing an average of 26.5 minutes and averaging 11.3 points
per game.
Lowe had the same surgery on the same shoulder
between his junior and senior seasons at West Side High School in Gary
and came back several months ahead of schedule.
Playing abroad
Lowe was supposed to play on the Big Ten Foreign
Tour Team, but he had to withdraw because of the surgery. However, three
members of the men's basketball team have been playing overseas this
month.
Joe Marshall, a senior guard, replaced Lowe on
the Big Ten Foreign Tour Team that is competing in England and Ireland.
Marshall scored 12 points and was named the game's
MVP Aug. 10 in the team's 110-83 victory over the Ealing Tornados Select
on Aug. 10. The Purdue guard pulled down nine rebounds, had two assists
and connected on 10 of 12 free throws. At one point in the third quarter,
Marshall knocked down six straight free throws to help open up a 19-point
lead.
In the team's second game, a 98-76 victory over
the Islington White Heat Saturday in England, Marshall added 10 points
and led the team with six assists. Marshall added four rebounds and
connected on 4 of 4 free throw attempts after going 3 of 7 from the
field.
Willie Deane, a junior guard who played 32 games
a year ago, went to Australia to compete with a team of collegiate all-stars.
Brett Buscher, a sophomore forward who saw action
in all 32 games as a freshman, played in Europe with the NIT All-Stars.
The squad played four games throughout Slovakia, Austria and Hungary.
I want my WTTV
Some of Purdue's non-conference games will be seen
live only by the fans in attendance.
WTTV, also the local carrier of the WB network,
recently announced that it will broadcast — at the most —
10 of Purdue's non-conference games. The same goes for Indiana's non-conference
games.
Purdue's first regular-season game is Nov. 17 at
Valparaiso. The home opener in Mackey Arena is Nov. 21 against Radford.
Teeing it up for cystic fibrosis
On Tuesday, Keady hosted the 13th annual Gene Keady-Emerson
Kampen Golf Classic at the Birck Boilermaker Golf Complex. The event
raised money for The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
"Every year we raise more money to fight this dreaded
disease and every day we get closer to a cure for cystic fibrosis,"
Keady said.
Members of the 1984 Big Ten champion men's basketball
team joined Keady this year at the outing. Curt Clawson, Greg Eifert,
Ricky Hall and Jim Rowinski participated.
Clawson was an Academic All-Big Ten honoree in
both his junior and senior seasons. Hall was named second team All-Big
Ten in his senior season while averaging 10.7 points per game. Eifert
started all 29 games his senior season en route to earning AP honorable
mention All-Big Ten recognition.
Rowinski was voted AP honorable mention All-America,
UPI honorable mention All-America, UPI Big Ten co-player of the year
and UPI and AP first team All-Big Ten. He averaged 15 points and 6.7
rebounds per game his senior season.
The 1984 team tied for the Big Ten title with a
15-3 conference mark. The league title was the first of six Big Ten
championships for Keady at Purdue.
"Those four guys allowed me to stay at Purdue,"
said Keady. "We were picked to finish ninth in the conference and we
ended up winning it, so they were a special group of kids."
Wax on, wax off
Keady Court will re-open Tuesday after the new
finish on the floor has dried and cured.
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