When Oregon State’s Tres Tinkle broke his non-shooting wrist while trying to defend a dunk by Fresno State’s Paul Watson on Nov. 25, he was initially estimated to be out for four to six weeks. Then it was six to eight weeks.
Ten weeks later, he’s still waiting.
“Still no updates,” OSU coach Wayne Tinkle said of his standout son to the Oregonian this week. “He’s not going to play this weekend. That’s where it is.”
The injury has taken so long to heal that the Beavers may be considering trying to appeal for a medical redshirt season. Tres played in only six games, all before December, so he easily meets medical redshirt requirements of playing in no more than 30 percent of a team’s games and none after the halfway point of he season.
But the injury also has to be proven to be “season ending”in order for it to be automatically granted, so if Tres is somehow cleared before the end of the Beavers’ headed-nowhere season, he will have to return or risk trying to appeal for a hardship waiver.
