Brice Sensabaugh out for remainder of season with knee injury
Ohio State star freshman forward Brice Sensabaugh, a projected first-round NBA Draft pick, is out for the remainder of the Buckeyes’ season with a knee injury.
The specifics have not been announced yet, however, the program released a statement Saturday morning ahead of Ohio State’s Big Ten Tournament semifinal matchup with top-seeded Purdue that noted an initial evaluation detected the injury and that Sensabaugh will “continue to be evaluated.”
“Brice has had an outstanding freshman season and played very well down the stretch,” Buckeyes head coach Chris Holtmann said in the statement. “I know how badly he wanted to play, and we are disappointed for him. We are proud of him and his continued development as a player and I know he’s looking forward to supporting his teammates again today.”
Sensabaugh missed his first game of the season Friday with “knee soreness.” He watched from the bench as his teammates stitched together another upset, this time taking down fourth-seeded Michigan State, 68-58, to become the lowest seed in Big Ten Tournament history to advance to the semifinals.
Sensabaugh is the second Ohio State player this season to be shut down for the season. Junior center Zed Key re-aggravated a left shoulder sprain at Iowa on Feb. 16, had season-ending surgery after that and has started his four-to-six month recovery.
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Sensabaugh and Key are first and third on the team, respectively, in scoring this season. They are two of the Buckeyes’ three players this season to earn All-Big Ten recognition. The other is sixth-year forward Justice Sueing.
Sensabaugh, notably, missed his entire junior season at Lake Highland Prep in Orlando because of not only COVID-19 cancellations but also a meniscus injury that called for a pair of surgeries. That’s a big reason why Sensabaugh wasn’t as highly touted a recruit as he probably should have been.
Sensabaugh went on to become Florida’s Mr. Basketball as a senior and has a chance to go one-and-done at Ohio State after piling up the fourth-most points by a freshman in Buckeyes history.
Sensabaugh — a member of the All-Big Ten Freshman Team and All-Big Ten Third Team — averaged 16.3 points per game in 2022-23. He scored 20 or more points 11 times and, at one point, led Ohio State in scoring 13 straight games.
Although he has NBA prospects, he has not yet announced his plans for next year.
