You don't expect basketball players to get bashed so hard during a game that they wind up unconscious, but that's exactly what happened Tuesday night.
As Stanford guard Anthony Brown swept through on a drive with his elbows high, he smashed into the face of Vanderbilt's Luke Kornett.
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The hit was direct, and Kornett had his lights shut off for a second. It's pretty clear in the video, which is hard to watch.
Maybe anyone involved with a Vanderbilt game needs to have a helmet. A referee was knocked out during tip-off earlier in the season.
Stanford took the National Invitational Tournament win, 78-75.