Posted on Thu Apr 05, 2007 at 03:11:56 PM EST in College
More on: Idong Ibok, Spartans, NCAA Tournament, Top 10 Gruesome Injuries, video (all tags)

[Sportscolumn is running down the ten most gruesome sports injuries. Here's #7]

It was the first day of this year's NCAA tournament and the entire country was sitting in front of their TV's with brackets in hand as they drooled over the endless possibilities of Cinderella stories and last second heroics. But instead they got Idong Ibok flailing on the ground after dislocating his left elbow.

The accident happened when he tried to brace himself for a fall as Michigan State headed down court off a missed basket by Marquette.

It sounds painful enough but CBS went that extra mile and actually showed the television audience exactly what a dislocated elbow looks like. And it looks like a giant hole in your arm where an elbow used to be. At one point you can actually see him feeling around inside the dent, and by the screams he lets out, we're guessing he does not like what he feels.

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