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Southern Indiana University basketball player Jeron Lewis was pronounced dead Thursday after falling on court during a basketball game.

The 6-foot-8 260-pound player fell under the basket with four minutes left in the team’s game against Kentucky Wesleyan.

Witnesses report seeing Lewis fall to the ground before twitching and lying motionless.

The Athletic Department spokesman for the school tells the Associated Press that everything seemed to be going as planned until the 21-year-old fell suddenly.

“The play was under the basket. The ball was rebounded, we were on defense, and the next thing I knew – most everyone knew – all of a sudden the officials start blowing whistles, and Jeron was motionless with the trainer from Kentucky Wesleyan. They started giving him treatment, took him to the medical center. That is where he passed away.”

A preliminary autopsy today revealed that the young man died of natural causes with the coroner reporting that he had heart problems and no signs of head trauma.

So sad…