The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets women’s basketball team hadn’t been hit with the injury bug yet this season, but it arrived in the Yellow Jackets 105-94 double overtime loss to the Virginia Tech Hokies on Thursday night, in the form of a hamstring injury to Dani Carnegie. The freshman guard would go down due to an apparent hamstring injury in the third quarter.
Carnegie was having a stellar season for the Yellow Jackets, earning Freshman of the Week honors for four consecutive weeks, and five times overall this season. She became an immediate contributor to the Yellow Jackets offense, as she scored 17 points in her first game with the team and has scored in double figures in all but two games that she has played in and has put up at least five rebounds in all of the team’s last seven games.
Yellow Jackets teammates Kara Dunn and Tonie Morgan stepped up for the team with Carnegie out, as Dunn scored a season-high 33 points while Morgan scored a 28 points. The two will most likely assume more of a leadership role if Carnegie misses any playing time due to the injury.
There is no timetable for Carnegie’s return to the team, or if she will miss the Yellow Jackets game tomorrow against the Louisville Cardinals, but the Yellow Jackets and Carnegie both should want her to come back sooner rather than later, as she is the second leading scorer on the team this season with 15.1 points per game.