Warren’s frustrating season turns sad

Willie Warren has played lightning rod almost as much as he’s played basketball this season.

It’s been a tough year for the Oklahoma guard who has been through suspension and sickness and injury. There has been criticism. There has been questioning. There has been head shaking.

And that’s just from his coach.

But Jeff Capel wasn’t the only one who wondered about Warren. This is a guy who was projected to be a lottery pick in the NBA Draft a year ago. He was all over preseason All-American teams and even was picked as the preseason national player of the year by at least one publication.

At the time, it didn’t seem farfetched.

Now, it seems like an alternate universe.

He hasn’t had the season that anyone imagined, and now, it might be over. Capel said Thursday that Warren wouldn’t play the rest of the regular season because of his ankle injury and that the sophomore’s return for the Big 12 Tournament was questionable.

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BY JENNI CARLSON

COLUMNIST

Jenni Carlson

Warren’s frustrating season turns sad

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