Caris LeVert Injury: Updates on Michigan Star's Leg and Return

Michigan Wolverines star guard Caris LeVert has missed extended time with a leg injury and will not play again this season.

Michigan announced LeVert would not play again after suffering the leg injury at the end of December, ending his career with the Wolverines.

Continue for updates.

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LeVert Comments on End of Season

Tuesday, March 1

"After some prayer and talking it over with my family, [head coach John] Beilein and the medical staff, we all feel it is best for me to concentrate on getting fully healthy," LeVert said in a team release. "There is still some discomfort that does not allow me to help this team the way I want."

LeVert also discussed his career at Michigan:

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I am so thankful for what Coach Beilein, the assistants and the medical staff have done for me during my collegiate career and in particular while I have dealt with these injuries.

U-M has provided me the chance to live my dream of playing college basketball and to earn a Michigan degree. There are really no words to express my gratitude for that as well as my love for all my teammates. I am so blessed to be part of this wonderful university and will forever represent the Maize and Blue.

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LeVert's Injury Ends Disappointing Senior Season

This is just another setback for the Michigan playmaker who saw his 2014-15 campaign cut short because of a foot injury. What’s more, he dealt with a leg injury early in Big Ten play this season that held him out of action.

LeVert was leading the team in points, rebounds and assists when he suffered the leg injury this season.

The senior has improved his points per game every season on campus (2.3 per game as a freshman, 12.9 per game as a sophomore and 14.9 as a junior) and is currently averaging 16.5 points per game.

LeVert is particularly dangerous as a 6'7" matchup problem who can hit from three-point range as well as post up smaller defenders and attack the rim against slower, bigger defenders. He also gets involved on the boards and often handles the ball on the perimeter when the game is hanging in the balance and is arguably Michigan's top perimeter defender.

The Wolverines will continue to look to Zak Irvin and Derrick Walton Jr. to replicate LeVert's production for the remainder of the season. Irvin provides some of the same matchup problems as LeVert for opposing defenses at 6'6", while Walton rebounds, scores and sets up his teammates from the backcourt.