(U-WIRE) LAWRENCE, Kan. – Kansas basketball player Rodrick Stewart was injured in one of a series of fights that broke out at Abe and Jake’s Landing, 8 E. 6th St., early Sunday morning.

Student athletes were involved in breaking up the fights, Tyler Torneden, Abe and Jake’s manager, said.

Paramedics responded to a separate medical incident that occurred at the bar.

The bar, which often admits only people age 21 and over, allowed ages 18 and over Saturday night.

“There were multiple fights” about 1:30 a.m., a Lawrence, Kan., police officer said. “We have one injured and being checked out at the hospital. We had an individual fall from the railing, apparently, and he’s injured and at the hospital.”

Kansas men’s basketball assistant coach Kurtis Townsend went to Lawrence Memorial Hospital because of an involved athlete.

“I know obviously something happened with Rod,” Townsend said in reference to sophomore guard Rodrick Stewart. “I wasn’t there. I just got the call and came down here.”

Townsend was joined at the hospital by Aaron Miles, former Kansas guard, and Moulaye Niang, a former basketball player and current student assistant. It was previously reported that sophomore guard Russell Robinson was at the hospital, but he was not.

Torneden said another individual fell from heights near the entrance of the bar.

The individual “was removed from the bar; he was intoxicated,” he said. “He came down and it looks as if he tried to sneak into the back door, lost his balance, rolled down, fell off and hit his head.”

In the first of two statements released Sunday through media relations director Chris Theisen, Kansas men’s basketball coach Bill Self said he was “still in a fact-gathering stage.”

In a later statement, Bill Self said Stewart was hit in the head with a blunt object when he was attempting to leave the bar.

“All reports we have received indicate Rodrick had no involvement in the altercation other than him being hit over the head while going up the stairs,” Self said.

According to Self, Rodrick received four staples at the hospital and was feeling fine Sunday.

– Stephen Lynn