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Some updates from Mike DeCourcy: Lucas and Payne are both working their way back on to the court. Sherman missed a month due to foot surgery. Most interesting bit: Summers missed out on a chance to work with the USA Basketball Select Team due to a knee sprain. Despite the injury concerns, MSU is #1 in the Sporting News' preseason yearbook. If you buy the TSN book, be sure you have enough money left over to buy the hefty Spartan-centric tome the three of us TOCers are contributing to later this month.

Some bad news for a Friday morning: Adreian Payne dislocated his shoulder blocking a shot last night. He was able to stay and watch the end of his team's upset win after the trainer popped his shoulder back in place. We'll have to wait and see what the prognosis is for this being an issue going forward. As it happens, I dislocated my shoulder multiple times before eventually having surgery. My impression is that, once you've had one dislocation, reoccurences are quite likely absent surgery and physical therapy. (See: Naymick, Drew.)

The suspense ends in 18 hours. Discussion Speculation Rumor-mongering about MSU's prospects of landing Payne is here.