Jesse McCulloch, Jordan Scott dealing with injuries for Michigan State basketball
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HOLT — It’s still June, but Michigan State basketball is battling a spate of summer injuries.
Having lost transfer forward Kaleb Glenn for the season due to a knee injury a little over a week ago, the Spartans also are going through offseason workouts without redshirt freshman big man Jesse McCulloch and with freshman wing Jordan Scott battling a minor tweak in his left leg.
McCulloch arrived at the Moneyball Pro-Am opening night on Tuesday, June 24, wearing a walking boot on his right foot. The 6-foot-10, 240-pound Cleveland native said he suffered a stress fracture and is two weeks into a six-week rehab program.
“I’m going to be back the middle of July or the beginning of August,” said McCulloch, who sat out last season to build strength and stamina.
Scott, meanwhile, did not suit up for the first night of the annual summer league but sat on the bench of his Team Snipes squad with a sleeve covering his lower left calf. He called it a precautionary move.
“I’m good, it’s just a little tweak,” the 6-7, 190-pound Scott said. “I’ll be good by next week.”
Glenn, a 6-6, 200-pound transfer from Florida Atlantic who began his career at Louisville, suffered a non-contact injury June 16 and underwent surgery three days later. After earning second-team all-conference honors in the AAC over the winter, the junior will redshirt this season and have two seasons of eligibility remaining for MSU coach Tom Izzo, the school said in a statement last week.
“It doesn’t help at all. You never ever want a teammate like that go down, especially with that severe an injury,” junior Coen Carr said of Glenn. “We just gotta stay with him, keep his spirits high and hope for a speedy recovery.”
One other player also wasn’t at Moneyball, but this time it was not injury-related: Jeremy Fears Jr., the Spartans third-year point guard who spent last summer rehabbing from a December 2023 gunshot wound to his upper left thigh, left East Lansing on Tuesday to head to the 2025 NBA Draft in New York. Fears’ younger brother, Jeremiah, is expected to be a top-10 pick Wednesday, June 25, after one season at Oklahoma.
Former MSU guard Jase Richardson also hopes to get selected Wednesday after declaring for the draft following a third-team All-Big Ten, one-and-done season with the Spartans. USA TODAY projected the 6-foot-1/2, 178-pound Richardson to go to Minnesota with the No. 17 pick in its final mock draft.
His former teammates said they plan to watch the draft, and Carr said he is excited for “one of my best friends” to show what he can do in the pros.
“He was my roommate,” Carr said. “And to see him live out his dreams is great. I’m just happy for him and ready to see where he lands. That’s gonna be one of my new favorite teams, wherever he goes.”
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This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Michigan State basketball: Freshmen Jesse McCulloch, Jordan Scott ailing
