Big Ten News: Northwestern Provides Unfortunate Update on Guard Jalen Leach
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Northwestern's basketball program has announced more bad news regarding the 2024-25 season. On Sunday, the program revealed that starting guard Jalen Leach will miss the remainder of the year because of an ACL injury. This comes just a week after it was announced that Brooks Barnhizer will miss the rest of the season with a foot injury.
On Sunday, coach Chris Collins announced that Leach will miss the remainder of the season with an injury. The news came on Sunday, a day after the Wildcats dropped a 76-71 decision to Washington in Seattle.
Leach did not play in the game.
Coach Collins has announced that graduate student Jalen Leach has suffered an ACL injury and will miss the remainder of the season.
— Northwestern Basketball (@NUMensBball) February 9, 2025
Wishing @JalenL30 a quick recovery 💜 pic.twitter.com/oKR0utcKAG
A fifth-year senior, Leach was averaging 14.3 points, 3.4 assists and 2.1 rebounds per game for the Wildcats. He was also shooting 44.8% from the floor and 39.4% from 3-point range on the season.
Leach transferred to Northwestern after spending his first four seasons at Fairfield. He's enjoyed a prolific college career at his two stops, scoring 1,188 points, grabbing 332 rebounds and dishing out 235 assists.
Northwestern is 13-11 on the season and owns a 4-9 mark in Big Ten play.
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Dustin Schutte is the publisher of Purdue Boilermakers on SI and has spent more than a decade working in sports journalism. His career began in 2013, when he covered Big Ten football. He remained in that role for eight years before working at On SI to cover the Boilermakers. Dustin graduated from Manchester University in Indiana in 2010, where he played for the men's tennis team.
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