Louisville's Chane Behanan, foreground, and Wayne Blackshear (20) react to guard Kevin Ware's injury during the first half of the Midwest Regional final against Duke in the NCAA college basketball tournament,... (Associated Press) 
 
 Trainers check on Louisville guard Kevin Ware (5) after an injury during the first half of the Midwest Regional final against Duke in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, March 31, 2013, in... (Associated Press) 
 
 Louisville's Wayne Blackshear (20) and Chane Behanan (21) react to Kevin Ware's injury during the first half of the Midwest Regional final in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, March 31,... (Associated Press) 
 
 "The bone's 6 inches (152 millimeters) out of his leg, and all he's yelling is, `Win the game, win the game,'" said Louisville coach Rick Pitino, who wiped away tears Sunday as national television quickly backed away from showing replays of Kevin Ware's nasty fall. "Because it was a weight-bearing bone and it was such a difficult injury, it will take a while," Hina said. Ware will miss at least a year, Louisville coach Rick Pitino said after the game, and it's fair to wonder if he'll ever play high-level basketball again. Behanan looked as if he was going to be sick. And evoking memories of a similar, career-ending injury to the NFL's Joe Theismann, Ware snapped his leg in two places, with his tibia bone sticking six inches out of the skin. Consider the case of Michael Bush, a former Louisville running back who suffered a similar injury in 2006. Injury among worst seen on TV 
 
 Ware's broken leg—"about the most gruesome injury I've seen in a basketball game," bemoaned analyst Seth Davis—came on a routine play, as he landed awkwardly after trying to block a shot by Duke's Tyler Thornton. Bush posted on Twitter that he cried after seeing Ware's injury. "It looks like what we call a bending fracture — like snapping a pencil with your finger," he said. Ware's right leg bent in such an awkward, frightening angle that CBS stopped showing replays.
– Louisville guard Kevin Ware is recovering from what commentators say is the most horrific injury they've ever seen in a basketball game. Ware snapped his right leg in two places as he landed from a jump in the first half of the Cardinals' Midwest Regional final against Duke, leaving his broken tibia bone sticking six inches out of his skin, USA Today reports. Surgery last night was successful, but Ware is expected to be out for at least a year. Ware's teammates went on to beat Duke, 85-63. Before Ware was stretchered out of the stadium, he called his teammates over and urged them to win the game. "The bone's 6 inches out of his leg, and all he's yelling is, 'Win the game, win the game,'" Louisville coach Rick Pitino tells the AP. "I've not seen that in my life." Louisville will pay for Ware's surgery, but he was playing for no pay beyond a scholarship and NCAA regulations shield the organization from compensation claims, Forbes notes.