A Brandon Ashley update

Bruce Pascoe writes today:

Brandon Ashley will return to Tucson for both summer sessions, and Miller is expecting him to make significant progress on his injured foot. Miller said ideally Ashley will be back to full contact sometime in August.

“He’s a little bit over four months (since his Feb. 1 injury) and this four months really was about healing,” Miller said, "really allowing everything to take shape, to stay off it. The one thing he’s doing is he’s started to walk under water. He has less and less soreness; it’s not pain anymore.

“We look at June, July, August as being pivotal. At that point we would like to see him return to form and be out there. He’s been in a difficult situation of taking it slow. It’s not easy just to do nothing.

“He’s lifting weights and when he comes back he’s going to be on a mission to returning back to five-on-five fullcourt. And once he does that we have to be smart making sure we push him and yet not push him too much. But so far so good with Brandon. We expect a full recovery, not only here but allowing him to leave Arizona and have a long career beyond.”