Trimble has surgery on non-shooting arm after injury while lifting weights

By R.L. Bynum

Seth Trimble had surgery Monday after something fell on his left arm while lifting weights on Sunday.

No timetable has been set for his recovery, according to a UNC spokesman, who confirmed how the injury happened. The surgery was to repair a broken bone in his left forearm, which is his non-shooting arm.

Forearm fractures that require surgery generally heal in about 6–8 weeks, though the timeframe depends on the severity of the break. No. 18 UNC’s game at SMU on Jan. 4 is just short of eight weeks after his surgery.

“My bruddas got me while I’m down,” Trimble said in an Instagram post Sunday night. “I’ll see y’all in a few weeks.”

With Trimble out, junior Luka Bogavac likely will start Tuesday’s 7 p.m. home game against Radford, though Jonathan Powell will also get playing time at that spot.

Trimble, who has started 23 of his 104 career games, bruised the thumb in his shooting hand early last season, then missed games after suffering a concussion in practice.

Once he returned from the concussion, he had trouble finding a rhythm.

“I didn’t get my game back after that concussion,” Trimble said before this season. “I had good games, I had bad games, but the biggest thing was just the inconsistency after my concussion. I was fighting, fighting, fighting, and I honestly think that was part of the problem — I was trying so hard to get it back and not just let it flow.”

The experience of working his way back last season could be helpful in what he’s about to go through in recovery this season.