Tucker DeVries injury update: Latest update on status of West Virginia guard

Earlier this week, West Virginia head coach Darian DeVries revealed that guard Tucker DeVries will be sidelined indefinitely with an “upper-body injury.”

He said that his veteran guard will continue to have the support of his teammates as he works his way back onto the court, but it’s unclear when he’ll be able to return to action.

“We’ll just continue to rely on the medical team to tell us what needs to happen there,” the WVU head coach said. “I thought our team, in a game that was going to be hard and choppy anyway with all the changing defenses and things, I thought the team did a nice job of figuring things out. We had a lot of lineups out there where guys had never played certain positions before.

“So, when you’re trying to execute things, you’re pretty limited on what you could do. We had to rely on just spacing and moving and cutting and passing and those are the things we’ll continue to work on as we move forward.”

Tucker DeVries the first eight games for the Mountaineers to start the 2024-25 campaign. He averaged 14.9 points and 4.9 rebounds per game over that stretch.

He came to WVU alongside his father from Drake, where Tucker DeVries played for three years. DeVries started every game for Drake across the last two seasons before his transfer. During the 2023-24 campaign, he averaged 21.6 points and 6.7 rebounds per game that season.

Now, West Virginia will have to look elsewhere for scoring for the foreseeable future.

“We’ll prepare tomorrow with the guys we have on the floor,” Darian DeVries continued. “If that changes, then we’ll adjust. Whoever we have available for those days and those games, that’s how we’ll prepare for each game.”

Next up for West Virginia basketball following its 79-45 win over NC Central is a homestand against Bethune-Cookman on Saturday. Tip-off is scheduled for 7 p.m. ET live on ESPN+ from inside WVU Coliseum.