Duquesne's Frankie Hughes will miss the 2019-2020 season with a knee injury
Duquesne junior guard Frankie Hughes, who was one of the top 3-point shooters in the Atlantic 10 last season, will miss the upcoming season after a doctors found a torn meniscus in his knee. He is scheduled to undergo surgery next month.
For all who don’t know I will be out this upcoming season due to a knee injury, I will be getting surgery soon & will be out for 6 months ??#GodsPlan
— f r a n k i e (@_4l0w) September 13, 2019
Hughes was one of three Duquesne players to appear in all 32 games last season. He led the team with 71 3-point field goals and his 2.2 per-game average was fifth in the conference. He attempted 219 3-pointers, which was 79.9 percent of his field goal attempts and the seventh-highest total in school history.
Hughes transferred from Missouri after the 2016-17 season.
Jerry DiPaola is a TribLive reporter covering Pitt athletics since 2011. A Pittsburgh native, he joined the Trib in 1993, first as a copy editor and page designer in the sports department and later as the Pittsburgh Steelers reporter from 1994-2004. He can be reached at jdipaola@triblive.com.
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