Clemson guard Brevin Galloway suffers injury

The Clemson basketball team continues to not be able to catch a break.

Starting shooting guard Brevin Galloway has suffered an abdominal injury, Clemson Sports has learned. Galloway is considered day-to-day, but it seems unlikely he will play Saturday at Florida State.

Galloway has appeared in all 20 games this season, making 19 starts.

He is fourth on the team in scoring, averaging 10.4 points per game. He is also second on the team in assists with 50.

Galloway is one of three Clemson guards currently injured, joining starting point guard Chase Hunter and starting shooting guard Alex Hemenway.

The Tigers are hopeful Hunter and Hemenway will be able to play in Clemson’s next game Saturday at FSU.

Galloway transferred to Clemson from Boston College after starting his college career at College of Charleston.

He is having arguably the best year of his career, due in part to finally being healthy. The Anderson native has battled injuries throughout his college career.

If Galloway, Hunter and Hemenway are all unable to play Saturday against the Seminoles, Clemson will be down its top three guards.

Brownell is hopeful that at least one of Hunter and Hemenway will be able to play.

“We’re hoping those guys will be back, maybe this weekend. They’re closer,” Brownell said earlier this week. “Thought there was an outside chance [Chase] might play [Tuesday], but just want them to be comfortable before they get out there in competition.”

Clemson is 8-1 since Hemenway went out and 2-1 without Hunter as the Tigers currently sit atop the ACC standings with a 9-1 league record at the halfway mark of conference play.

Both players have returned to practice, at least in a limited capacity.

“Just very light stuff. More 1-on-1 stuff,” Brownell said. “We thought maybe that we could get them to do some of that [Monday]. Didn’t quite get to that point. Just trying to be ultra-careful.”

Hunter is third on Clemson’s team in scoring, averaging 14 points per game. He leads the Tigers in assists. Hemenway is fifth in scoring, averaging 9.8 points per game.

By sitting the pair on Tuesday, it allowed them to get a couple of extra days off. Clemson obviously didn’t practice Tuesday with it being a game day and also had Wednesday off.

Brownell is hopeful that the couple of days of rest will allow them to make progress and be ready to play this weekend.

“If we progress then maybe we’ll see Thursday how it goes,” Brownell said. “It’s just one of those things where I felt like let’s just give them another two days. We’ll give them [Tuesday] and [Wednesday] and really try to see how they are on Thursday and Friday. And if it works, it works, and if it doesn’t, we’ll back it up another couple of days.”