Yaxel Lendeborg, Solo Ball left off NCAA Tournament championship injury report
Yaxel Lendeborg and Solo Ball were left off April 5's injury report ahead of the Men's NCAA Tournament national championship game.
It's a full go for Michigan's Yaxel Lendeborg and Connecticut's Solo Ball in the Men's NCAA Tournament national championship game on Monday night. Both Lendeborg and Ball were left off their team's respective NCAA initial player availability reports that were released at 9 p. m.
ET on Sunday, per the NCAA's guidelines. There will be an additional player availability report released two hours before tomorrow night's tip-off inside Lucas Oil Stadium. The Wolverines and the Huskies are set for an 8:50 p.
m. ET tip-off on Monday. It's the first meeting between both since the 2015-16 season, when they met in the Bahamas for a multi-team event tournament in November.
REQUIRED READING: Michigan vs UConn prediction, spread: Who is favored to win national championship? Lendeborg sustained an injury with just under nine minutes left in the first half of the semifinal game when he appeared to twist his ankle after stepping on the foot of Wildcats forward Motiejus Krivas while going to the basket for a layup. It'd later be known that Lendeborg suffered a sprained MCL of his left knee and an injured ankle.