Florida sophomore middle Micah Handlogten was taken off the courtroom on a stretcher Sunday in the course of the SEC Males’s Basketball Event championship recreation after he suffered a extreme decrease left leg damage.
The damage occurred early within the first half of Sunday’s recreation in opposition to Auburn, stopping play for a number of minutes whereas trainers and medical personnel handled Handlogten. In accordance with the ESPN broadcast, Florida later confirmed the decrease left leg damage and added that Handlogten had been taken to Vanderbilt College Medical Middle in Nashville “for additional analysis.”
On the play that the damage occurred, Handlogten, a 7-foot-1, 235-pound participant, jumped close to the basket in an try to haul in a rebound. The ball glanced off his palms, and as Handlogten landed, his weight fell awkwardly on his left leg, inflicting his ankle to buckle. Auburn recovered the unfastened ball after which rapidly transformed a layup on the opposite finish earlier than play was stopped. The damage happened with 17:48 within the first half.
Play was stopped for a number of minutes and the group at Bridgestone Enviornment in Nashville grew quiet. Gamers from each groups appeared visibly involved, some in tears, and prayer circles fashioned whereas Handlogten was being handled.
In accordance with the ESPN broadcast, medical employees on the courtroom stabilized Handlogten’s decrease left leg and used an “air cast-like contraption.” Air casts are generally used to safe extreme traumatic accidents, corresponding to damaged bones and compound fractures. The ESPN broadcast additionally reported that there was a big quantity of blood ensuing from the damage.
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Per the printed, Handlogten’s mother and father, Danielle and Benjamin, have been each on the courtroom close to the place Handlogten was being handled and loaded onto the stretcher. Handlogten’s mother and father adopted him as medical personnel ushered him off the courtroom on the stretcher. Handlogten’s teammates in a short time ran over to want him nicely as he was taken off the courtroom. Play resumed shortly afterward.
Handlogten, who’s from Lake Norman, N.C., was averaging 5.5 factors and seven.1 rebounds this season for the Gators.