Louisville's Kevin Ware Could Find Inspiration from Derrick Roland

By now, we are all aware of the injury Ware sustained in the first half of the Elite Eight match-up between Louisville and Duke.

From the severity of the injury to the reaction of Ware's Louisville teammates, there was one person who immediately saw the parallels between Ware and Derrick Roland's injury.

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Derrick Roland ?@eu_Ro6 Talking about knowing what someone is going through .. #LouisvilleDuke #goosebumps

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"Yesterday was kind of like déjà vu for me," Roland said Monday. "I didn't know how bad my injury was until I saw my teammates' faces and the reaction of the fans in the stands. When I saw everyone on the Louisville bench covering their eyes, that was one of the same things I saw when it happened to me."

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To be honest, I fully believed that we had seen the end of Derrick Roland that night against Washington. His gruesome injury (broken fibia, broken tibula) occurred during his senior year at A&M, and the NCAA later denied him a medical redshirt. He didn't give up at that point and has since played professionally in South America and Europe.

Roland plans to try to connect with the Louisville guard in the coming weeks.

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"I just want to give him a couple words of encouragement," Roland said. "I want him to know there are other people who have been in his shoes and come out of it OK."

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Derrick Roland ?@eu_Ro6 @KevinWare_5 keep your head up!

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