Many people have noticed men’s basketball player Damian Hollis walking around with a huge cast around his right hand. Hollis had started wearing a brace on his shooting hand during the team’s Feb. 3 loss at Temple and kept it on through the end of the season.

Sports Information Director Brad Bower told me this afternoon in an email that Hollis “sustained a sprained ligament in his right thumb during a practice prior to the Feb. 3 Temple game. He underwent surgery following the season to repair the ligament and will wear that cast for approx. 6-8 weeks.”

Hollis wouldn’t comment on the situation when I asked him about it yesterday. He’ll most likely be fine to play come October, when practice for next season officially begins, but it’ll be interesting to see if the time off the court will have any impact on him. His statistics stayed pretty consistent while wearing the brace this season and had one standout game (17 points against St. Bonaventure Feb. 16) during that period.