((HT: FS Houston))
This is not pretty under any circumstance...
The 22nd-ranked Washington Huskies beat Number 19 Texas A&M 73-64 on Tuesday night. But the biggest event that may have turned the game U-Dub's way is below...
Derrick Roland is the second-leading scorer for the Aggies. He went up for a rebound, planted, and snapped his right leg just below the kneecap...
Coach Mark Turgeon didn't care that play was still going on- he knew what happened immediately. Leading scorer Donald Sloan, who is really tight with Roland, was visibly shaken...
Barry Tompkins has the call...
Andy Katz, over at the four-letter, reveals that Roland suffered a tib-fib fracture and is pretty much done in college. Coach Turgeon tells Katz that they're trying to fly family up from Dallas, but it's difficult because of the holiday.
"It's tough to leave a player," Turgeon said. "We're trying to get his family here as quickly as possible, but it's not easy with Christmas and flights being sold out."
Other Aggie players and staff are staying with Roland in Washington until family arrives.
"Derrick was the heart and soul of this team," Turgeon told Katz. "Everyone is devastated. Our guys had their eyes swollen in the last five minutes of the game. They were crying during the game. They never came out of it."
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