Kansas University junior center Markieff Morris had successful hernia surgery Thursday afternoon, KU coach Bill Self said Thursday night.
“Surgery went as expected,” Self said. “He should be back on his feet this weekend and returning in a limited capacity to practice sometime next week.”
Morris, a 6-foot-10, 246-pounder from Philadelphia, hasn’t missed any of KU’s first six practices due to the injury. Morris is expected to be available for KU’s exhibition opener against Washburn on Nov. 2 in Allen Fieldhouse.
“We don’t anticipate any complications. It’s one where he’ll be out five days maybe before he’s exercising, shooting, probably 10 days before he’s full speed,” Self said earlier Thursday at Big 12 Media Day in Kansas City. “He could play with it (injury) but if it got worse we’d have to repair it in the middle of the season and he’d be out 10 days when it really counted. He had some discomfort lifting. We had a hernia specialist look at it and said it’s best to knock it out (surgery) right now.”
