KU’s David McCormack out 12 weeks after surgery to repair broken bone in foot

By Matt Tait     Mar 31, 2021

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Kansas forward David McCormack (33) turns to put up a shot in the paint over TCU center Kevin Samuel (21) during the first half on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021 at Allen Fieldhouse.

Kansas basketball coach Bill Self told the Journal-World that junior forward David McCormack had surgery Wednesday to repair a broken bone in his foot.

McCormack, who finished second on the team in scoring at 13.4 points per game this season, is expected to be out for 12 weeks and will return to basketball activities sometime this summer.

Self said McCormack played the final five games of the 2020-21 season on a sore foot and that it became evident in KU’s win over Eastern Washington in the first round of the NCAA Tournament that the injury would need further attention after the season.

That game was McCormack’s first since March 4 after he tested positive for COVID-19 before the start of the postseason. The junior from Norfolk, Va., scored 22 points and grabbed nine rebounds in 25 minutes off the bench in KU’s 93-84 victory.

Despite the injury, McCormack played two days later in KU’s season-ending loss to USC in Round 2.

“Dave showed a lot of courage to even attempt to play through it against USC,” Self noted.

After a slow start to his junior campaign, McCormack finished the season as a second-team all-Big 12 honoree.

Although he tested his NBA draft stock last season before announcing his decision to return to KU, McCormack is expected to be back for his fourth year with the program in 2021-22 and still could have two seasons of eligibility left because of the additional year given to all college athletes this season because of the pandemic.

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Written By Matt Tait

A native of Colorado, Matt moved to Lawrence in 1988 and has been in town ever since. He graduated from Lawrence High in 1996 and the University of Kansas in 2000 with a degree in Journalism. After covering KU sports for the University Daily Kansan and Rivals.com, Matt joined the World Company (and later Ogden Publications) in 2001 and has held several positions with the paper and KUsports.com in the past 20+ years. He became the Journal-World Sports Editor in 2018. Throughout his career, Matt has won several local and national awards from both the Associated Press Sports Editors and the Kansas Press Association. In 2021, he was named the Kansas Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sports Media Association. Matt lives in Lawrence with his wife, Allison, and two daughters, Kate and Molly. When he's not covering KU sports, he likes to spend his time playing basketball and golf, listening to and writing music and traveling the world with friends and family.