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Georgia Tech’s Jason Morris out indefinitely with broken right foot

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After playing just four minutes in Georgia Tech’s 78-65 loss to North Carolina on Wednesday night, 6-foot-5 senior wing Jason Morris left the game with a right foot injury. On Friday the school announced that Morris broke the fifth metatarsal in that foot, and as a result he’ll be sidelined indefinitely with a return this season described as “doubtful.”

“This is very unfortunate, almost beyond description,” Georgia Tech head coach Brian Gregory said in the release. “I’ve never seen anything like it. He played four minutes Wednesday and had two rebounds, which is an area we needed help in, and he had embraced that. He got hurt making a great defensive play, and we made a three-point play on the other end. He wants to do everything he can to get back, but it’s going to be difficult.”

Morris played in just nine games this season, starting four, posting averages of 2.2 points and 2.7 rebounds per game. His best outings game in losses to Maryland and Duke, with Morris scoring five points in each of those games and grabbing five rebounds in the loss to the Terrapins.

What makes this news so difficult for Georgia Tech is the fact that the injury bug has affected Morris on multiple occasions throughout his career. Morris played in just 18 games last season, with plantar fasciitis in his left foot resulting in his missing ten games. And in October Morris underwent surgery on that same foot to repair a stress fracture, resulting in his missing the first ten games of the season.

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