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Saturday, February 03, 2007
Best case: Brown back by end of season
Bucknell's Donald Brown hopes to return by the Patriot League tournament.

If Brown's broken hand happened to you or I, we'd be looking at two months in a cast, Bucknell coach Pat Flannery said after Friday night's win at Navy.

But Brown is not you or I. Brown is a college senior playing his final season, hoping to close out his career with a third-straight trip to the NCAA Tournament. So doctors are treating Brown's injury differently.

After X-rays confirmed the hand was broken, doctors operated to place pins in the 6-6 forward's hand to speed his recovery. One of the team's doctors even traveled tgo Annapolis with the team to look after th eteam's star patient.

Flannery said doctors are working with Brown to try to maintain flexibility in the hand, which is heavily wrapped in what looked to be a soft cast. The injury is to Brown's right -- shooting -- hand.

While Flannery refused to set a timetable for Brown's return, Brown said doctors have told him they hope he can come back in three to four weeks. Three weeks would mean the final week of the regular season. Four would mean brown's return would coincide with the start of the Patriot League Tournament.

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