Credit: Michael Sears
Madison — Andy Van Vliet's phone lit up early Tuesday morning.
Text messages. Tweets. Facebook posts. Voice messages.
Everyone who reached out to the Wisconsin Badgers' freshman forward wanted to know whether his family was safe back home in Brussels, Belgium.
Van Vliet, a native of Brasschaat, a municipality of slightly more than 37,000 people and located in the province of Antwerp, hadn't seen the news yet.
He wasn't aware that more than 30 people died and more than 200 others were injured in terrorist bombings at the airport and a metro station.