Wendell Carter's mom switches seats after verbal altercation with URI fans

Duke freshman Wendell Carter Jr.'s mother, Kylia Carter, switched seats during the first half of Duke's game against Rhode Island after a verbal altercation with a group of Rams fans seated behind Duke's traveling party.

Carter said the fans were heckling her.

Security at the game warned the fans and things calmed down.

"I kind of want to just stay between the lines, but knowing that someone was saying something to someone as close as my mother, something like that, I know my mom's going to go about the situation correctly," Wendell Carter Jr. said about the incident. "I'm not worried about her doing anything out of character or anything. I know we have a lot of great Duke fans who are going to make sure nothing bad happens. I don't like anybody going against my mother in that kind of way but I know she went about that situation correctly."

This story was originally published March 17, 2018 at 4:12 PM with the headline "Wendell Carter's mom switches seats after verbal altercation with URI fans."