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Gets out of surgery and then will see him again in the morning when he's awake, and will be glad to get him back on campus with us. >> do you know how long he's been in surgery and how long he has? >> i don't have any timetable. >> thank you and please give our best to kevin and the family and his team. thank you, sir. i want to move on now and talk to our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. got him on the phone, thought it was important to talk to him and talk to you as well. tell bus this injury. how do doctors handle an injury like this? >> yeah, the doctors that i spoke with, i...

Gets out of surgery and then will see him again in the morning when he's awake, and will be glad to get him back on campus with us. >> do you know how long he's been in surgery and how long he has? >> i don't have any timetable. >> thank you and please give our best to kevin and the family and his team. thank you, sir. i want to move on now and talk to our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. got him on the phone, thought it was important to talk to him and talk to you as well. tell bus this injury. how do doctors handle an injury like this? >> yeah, the doctors that i spoke with, i...

Ware's injury. it was an open fracture, so elizabeth cohen is standing by. you talked about how initially the fear was just infection. >> exactly. if you have a bone sticking out, you want to make sure that you clean that up. and so it looks like that happened. he was taken to the hospital very quickly. and had a two hour surgery very quickly. this is such a gruesome accident as we can see on the faces. such a horrible thing to watch. but the doctors i talked to said it's quite fixable. we spoke with orthopedic surgeons not of course taking care of ware, but they have done the surgery many tim...

Hopeful that he will return with the team and hopefully travel to atlanta for the final four. >> that would be amazing if he makes that trip. thanks to you. >> just the presence on the court will help his team come saturday. want to talk a little bit more about this injury with cnn senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. and i know this was an open fracture. his right tibia. he's already undergone surgery. what did doctors have to do, elizabeth? >> the first thing you mentioned that it broke the skin, brooke, the first thing they worry about is infection. making sure to keep that site cl...

It was his right continue yarks an op tibia, open fracture. he's gone through surgery. they had to reset the bone and now he has a rod in his leg. everything i read this morning and i know elizabeth cohen was talking to us about this, this may not be a came prior ending injury despite the gruesome nature of this whole thing. he may be able to play. >> elizabeth cohen tells us he could be back six months from now. at least training six months from now. and if you watched last night, that is wonderful news. we just hope he recovers well. our thoughts are with him this morning. ahead on startin...