ESPN gave a big shock to LSU and South Carolina basketball fans amid the chaos after Sunday’s SEC Women’s Basketball Championship game.
All players ejected from the game will be eligible to play in the first round of the NCAA Tournament after broadcasters Courtney Lyle and Carolyn Peck were ejected from both benches during a near-court scuffle. announced that it would lose.
Heading into the biggest tournament of the season, some pretty jarring announcements have been made for two of the best women’s programs in the game.
This would have been a significant blow as a total of 11 players were sent off on Sunday.
However, ESPN quickly corrected it on air just minutes later.
Instead, the clarification indicated that only players penalized for fighting would be ineligible to play in the March Madness opener.
South Carolina’s Camila Cardoso was the only player given a penalty of that nature, meaning she will miss the opening game, but the rest of the Shamcock bench will be able to play. Become.
The same goes for LSU’s bench.
There was enough confusion to make sense of some of the confusion as the referee sorted out what happened with 2:08 left in the game and LSU trailing by seven points.
Frauge Johnson’s intentional actions against Milesia Fulwily almost turned an already volatile game between the SEC rivals into a war.
Johnson wasn’t too pleased with Ashlyn Watkins, who appeared to be celebrating in front of LSU players, and shoved Watkins, causing Cardoso to slam Johnson to the ground and the players to come off the bench and join the fray. .
Johnson’s younger brother jumped from the stands onto the court and had to be removed by police.
In the end, South Carolina won the game 79-72, continuing their undefeated season and earning themselves the presumptive No. 1 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament.
On Sunday, the University of South Carolina picked up its second win of the season against LSU.
