The new prognosis is that Ray’s condition is only a soft tissue injury — treatable with eye drops — and that he will be released from St. Vincent’s Hospital in New York tonight, allowing him to travel back to Philadelphia with the rest of the Villanova team in the morning. Ray’s playing status for the opening round of the NCAA tournament is day-to-day, according to Wright, who said, “I gotta feel pretty good [about Ray being available].”
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By 12:30, the Villanova camp was breathing a massive sigh of relief. “This is the best possible scenario,” Wright said. “When I first saw [the doctors], they said [Ray’s] vision was starting to come back. Now they said his vision’s good and they’re going to release him.”
