Rodney Terry provides injury update on Timmy Allen ahead of NCAA Tournament

Timmy Allen missed the Big 12 Tournament with a lower leg injury and is considered day-to-day entering the NCAA Tournamanet, according to Texas interim coach Rodney Terry, who gave an update on his senior forward Saturday night.

“We have a great trainer in Warren [Young]. John Reilly does a great job, our strength coach. Those guys have been working with him tirelessly over the last few days. He’s made a lot of good progress,” Terry said postgame. “When you are going into this tournament that we weren’t going to jeopardize him in this tournament because we wanted him to be in the big tournament, because, again, we still want more and we want to be a hungry team that gets a chance.

“We’d like to have him back in the big tournament, and we will continue to work him day-to-day.”

Terry revealed that Allen was injured during the March 4 meeting between Kansas and the Texas staff immediately began working on his recovery.

Allen ranks third on the team in both minutes per game at 28.0 and points per game at 10.5. He is also the team leader in rebounds at 5.5 per game and second in assists with 109 on the season, but the Longhorns seemed just fine without Allen’s services through their Big 12 Tournament run.

In his place, Sir’Jabari Rice was sensational in Saturday’s 76-56 tournament championship win over the Jayhawks. He scored 17 points on 7-of-12 shooting alongside fellow leading scorers Dylan Disu (18) and Marcus Carr (17).

The win earned the Longhorns their second Big 12 Tournament Championship in program history, and are poised to make a deep run in the NCAA Tournament as a projected two-seed. With Texas playing its best basketball of the season right now — and without someone as impactful as Timmy Allen — the Longhorns could be in store for an exciting March.