Another Break Goes Against the Wildcats

Oh, yeah, this we needed...

It's not necessarily tragic but in the ongoing saga that is Jason Fraser's health history, it is another lousy chapter.

Fraser will have to undergo surgery on his injured right hand again tomorrow, a source told the Daily News. Last week when doctors removed the cast that had been covering his hand since the end of Villanova's basketball season in March, they discovered that the navicular bone, broken in mid-January during a game at Providence, hadn't healed all the way, requiring another surgery for the oft-injured junior center.

For those keeping score at home, that's surgery No. 5 for Fraser - three on his knees and now two on his hand.

Well, at least some things will never change for this group. For those looking for good news, maybe we're getting all the bad news out of the way. At least one knowledgable observer has us as high as #3 going into next season, behind Duke and UConn. Basically, we're the great hope of humanity to prevent another title from going to the minions of evil. I like our chances, injuries or not.