Kentucky senior Robinson to undergo season-ending wrist surgery

Kentucky senior guard Jaxson Robinson will undergo wrist surgery Wednesday and miss the rest of the 2024-25 campaign, head coach Mark Pope announced Saturday.

Robinson missed Saturday's 94-78 loss to top-ranked Auburn after suffering the injury during practice Feb. 7. He missed four consecutive games before returning Wednesday against Oklahoma but played just 12 minutes in the 83-82 win, his briefest appearance of the year.

"We kind of knew that he was going to need surgery, but he just wanted so badly to play," Pope told reporters following Saturday's loss. "He rehabbed it and had an injection to try and make it functional, and then he was doing OK, and then he went down in the first half at Oklahoma."

Pope said the issue was a torn subsheath in his right wrist, causing a dislocation of his extensor carpi ulnaris tendon.

Robinson is the Wildcats' second-leading scorer behind Otega Oweh. He averaged a team-high 2.6 made threes in 24 games, shooting 37.6% on 6.9 attempts.