A benches-clearing brawl broke out within the 2024 SEC ladies’s championship sport between No. 1 South Carolina and No. 2 LSU that led to a number of ejections and looming suspensions for the ladies’s NCAA match.
The incident began late within the fourth quarter with the Gamecocks holding a seven-point lead. South Carolina’s MiLaysia Fulwiley stole the ball from LSU star Flau’jae Johnson, who grabbed her from behind to cease the fastbreak. Johnson brushed towards a number of South Carolina gamers as she walked to the opposite finish of the court docket, after which bought shoved by USC star heart Kamilla Cardoso. That’s when the benches emptied and gamers from each side began combating. Johnson’s brother (in keeping with the published) jumped the rating’s desk and bought concerned within the altercation on the court docket. He was reportedly arrested and escorted away from the world.
South Carolina beat LSU, 79-72, to maintain their undefeated season alive. South Carolina will enter the ladies’s NCAA match at 32-0. Watch the chaotic scene right here:
Gamers who earned penalties for combating won’t be able to play within the first spherical of the NCAA match, in keeping with the published. Which means Cardoso will miss the Gamecocks’ match opener. There was mass ejections on each side, with LSU solely having 5 gamers left to complete the sport, and South Carolina having six gamers left.
Right here’s one other have a look at Johnson’s brother coming into the scuffle from the stands. ESPN mentioned Johnson’s brother was arrested.
These are the one gamers on every group who had been allowed to complete the sport — along with South Carolina’s Te-Hina Paopao. Everybody else was tossed. South Carolina and LSU shall be two of the heaviest favorites coming into the ladies’s match, and now each will beginning their March Insanity run with quite a few suspensions.
Remaining gamers for LSU:
Johnson, Reese, HVL, Williams, Morrow
For South Carolina:
Watkins, Fulwiley, Feagin, Corridor, Raven Johnson
Everybody else has been ejected
— Alexa Philippou (@alexaphilippou) March 10, 2024
Cardoso is about to overlook South Carolina’s first sport within the NCAA match. She issued an apology on social media after the sport:
I wish to lengthen my sincerest apologies for my actions throughout in the present day’s sport. My conduct was not consultant of who I’m as an individual or the South Carolina program, and I deeply remorse any discomfort or inconvenience it could have prompted. I take full duty for my…
— Kamilla_Cardoso (@Kamillascsilva) March 10, 2024
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