Illinois women’s basketball player Berry Wallace is wearing a mask while she plays in the Women’s NCAA Tournament vs. Vanderbilt?
Here’s why?
Wallace, a 6-foot-1 sophomore forward whose team is playing Vanderbilt in the second round of March Madness on March 23, fractured her nose during a practice in Oregon in February.
Wallace was averaging 18.4 points and 6.2 rebounds per game going into her team’s matchup against the Commodores at Memorial Gymnasium in Nashville.
She had eight points and five rebound at halftime of the Women’s NCAA Tournament game, which her team trailed 36-25.
Paul Skrbina is a sports enterprise reporter covering the Predators, Titans, Nashville SC, local colleges and local sports for The Tennessean. Reach him at pskrbina@tennessean.com and on the X platform (formerly known as Twitter) @paulskrbina.
