Duke basketball’s Kyle Filipowski simply acquired injured on the court docket … not throughout the sport, thoughts you — however by overzealous followers storming the venue postgame.

Duke — ranked eighth within the nation — simply misplaced 83-79 in a nail-biter match in opposition to unranked Wake Forest, an enormous upset that would have main convention championship implications.

As college students of the successful aspect are inclined to do after an enormous win, a whole bunch of excited faculty children rushed the court docket they usually seem to have injured the projected top-10 total decide.

From far-off, it was unclear precisely what occurred, although Kyle appeared to be in appreciable ache … however ESPN had the overhead view of the incident, and it is painful to look at.

It appears one fan ran proper into Kyle’s leg, bending it the improper manner and apparently spraining his ankle — all whereas speaking trash to the basketball phenom as a substitute of listening to the place he was operating.

Filipowski practically collapses, doubled over by the collision earlier than hobbling towards his teammates who supported his weight — principally, dragging him to the locker room.

Clearly, Kyle’s squad was incensed after the sport together with his coach Jon Scheyer brazenly questioning when the NCAA was going to ban courtstorming.

Kyle additionally opened up in regards to the incident after the sport … and he says he thinks the fan hit him on goal, attempting to injure him.

A serious harm proper now may severely have an effect on Kyle’s future livelihood BTW … ‘trigger NBA.com simply ranked him because the projected ninth total decide on this yr’s draft — that means an astronomical payday.