Rodney Terry evaluates Dylan Disu bone bruise injury, status for Elite Eight

The Texas basketball team could be without forward Dylan Disu depending on how he recovers from a bone bruise he suffered in a Round of 32 win over Penn State.

Disu did his best to recover in time for a Sweet 16 matchup with Xavier, but he re-aggravated the injury in practice on Thursday. As a result he was only able to stomach about two minutes of game time against Xavier before he was pulled from the game.

He did not return.

Interim basketball coach Rodney Terry discussed Disu’s injury after the game and said he’ll be day-to-day going forward.

“It will be day to day right now at the moment,” Terry said. “He got injured in the last ballgame. The last ballgame, the next day we immediately started trying to work on treatment and trying to see what we could do to put him in the best position, hopefully at the end of this week, to be in a good position to play.

“We had some good progress at one point, and then we had a setback or two. Again, we have the best in the business working with him. We’ll put him out there if he’s 100 percent, but we’re not going to put a young man who has a great future ahead of him out on the floor if he’s not ready to be out on the floor.”

Despite the brevity of Disu’s stint against Xavier, Terry said he knew going in that the forward would be limited.

He simply wanted to give Dylan Disu and his bone bruise the opportunity to play as trainers did their best to get him ready.

“They worked it all week. The last thing you want to do is put a young man out there that’s not ready to go full tilt,” Terry said. “I wanted to give him that moment, though, to start the game and have a couple trips because he’s worked so hard and he’s earned the right to be here in a regional and play in a regional.

“But we knew we weren’t going to have him very much in this game tonight. We’ll continue to go day to day with his progress. We’ve got the best in the business working with him. We won’t put him out there unless he’s full tilt to go.”

Disu has averaged 8.8 points and 4.4 rebounds per game. He’s also blocking 1.3 shots per game and dishing out 1.0 assists per contest.

Texas will be back in action in the Elite Eight with a game against Miami on Sunday at 5:05 p.m. ET. The game will be nationally broadcast on CBS.