NCAA title game top scorer Booth returns healthy for Nova

 

VILLANOVA, Pa. (AP) Villanova guard Phil Booth is healthy and ready to play after missing almost all of last season with a knee injury.
Booth was the leading scorer in Villanova’s national championship victory over North Carolina. Booth’s knees have hurt for two years. But coach Jay Wright says his star guard is ready to go for his junior season.
Booth has no idea how the knee was injured; he just knows it wasn’t the result of a direct hit and it started early in his sophomore year. He had surgery to repair a meniscus tear about a month after the national championship game and came back ready to help the Wildcats try and defend the title.
Booth felt an unrelated ”flare up” on his left kneecap early last season and his year was cut to only three games. Booth against underwent surgery at the end of the season.
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