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WSU’s Casto has surgery on knee

Posted by Vince

July 20, 2009 7:41 p.m. • 5 comments

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Let’s see what we’ve got. A quick note on DeAngelo Casto’s health – we have a short story that will be appearing in tomorrow’s paper, so the unedited version is available now – along with a link you might like. Read on.

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• Here’s the short on Casto …

Washington State University sophomore DeAngelo Casto underwent arthroscopic surgery Friday in Pullman to repair damage in the lateral and medial meniscus of his right knee.

Casto suffered the injury while playing with the United States U19 team in the FIBA World Championships in New Zealand earlier this month, a tournament the U.S. team won. Before the injury, Casto played in four tournament games, averaging 6.2 points and 3.2 rebounds.

The 6-foot-8 Casto played in 33 games as a freshman, averaged 4.4 points, 4 rebounds and blocked 39 shots.

Rehabilitation is expected to take between 10 and 12 weeks. WSU team doctor Ed Tingstad performed the surgery.

• That’s it for the short story. The damage must have been a little more extensive than first thought, but Casto is expected to be ready to go by the time basketball practice starts in October.

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• And here’s the link. It’s a freebie from CougFan and former P-I columnist Jim Moore – I say that because, though Jim is still writing online, the P-I as a newspaper, is dead. Jim writes about the one WSU player he’d like to see less of this season.

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• That’s it for this evening. We’ll be back if anything breaks. Until then …

Five comments on this post so far. Add yours!

cougarman45 on July 20 at 8:42 p.m.
have you seen or heard anything about the new basketball schedule?
coug79 on July 20 at 9:39 p.m.
Cougarman45—I haven’t seen the WSU schedule posted anywhere yet. You can find the Pac-10 schedule for UW on their website. Since we play the same teams as UW each weekend this at least lets you know when WSU will be at home and on the road vs. the various Pac-10 games. We’re supposedly at Kansas State on Decmeber 5. Other than that, the pre-season schedule is still a mystery.

Have any plans for New Year’s Eve yet? Don’t make any.
vinceg on July 20 at 9:56 p.m.
The official WSU schedule has yet to be released. The Cougars will probably open Pac-10 play at home vs. Oregon on Thursday, Dec. 31 - when the rest of the conference is opening - but that’s not official. The schedule looks to be - on successive weekends - home vs. Oregon schools, to Arizona, home vs. Bay Area schools, to LA, to UW, home vs. Arizonas, to Bay Area, home vs. LA schools, home vs. UW, at Oregon schools. As for nonconference games, the only ones I’m sure about are Portland State in Kennewick on Dec. 19, LSU in Key Arena on Dec. 22, at Kansas State in the Pac-10/Big 12 Hardwood Series on Dec. 5 and the more-than-likely Great Alaska Shootout in Anchorage Nov. 25 through 28. Other than that, nothing yet.
cougarman45 on July 21 at 6:34 p.m.
Thanks for that update vince. do you know if anyone is schedule for pre-season games, like LCSC?
Beiron on July 21 at 11:24 p.m.
Is it normal for team doctors to perform this type of work? It seems a little strange to me that every school in the country supports multiple surgeons on their staffs (assuming the football and basketball doctors that can perform even minor surgery are different). With Spokane only an hour away and a much bigger population I would expect this type of work to take place there.
Not sure if its a topic that would be of interest to everyone in the general public but I would be interested in learning more about this aspect of college athletics.