A fight took place during a women’s basketball game in Texas which lead to eight players kicked out of the game. The game took place between Texas Christian University (TCU) and George Washington University (GW) according to ESPN. An incident on the court caused multiple players from each team to get ejected. The eight players, five from GW and three from TCU were removed from the game after a fight that initially started with GW’s Essence Brown and TCU’s Bella Cravens. The incident began with 5:51 minutes remaining in the first half at TCU in Fort Worth, Texas.
The fight started when Brown pulled Cravens” hair when she went to go get a rebound. Then in retaliation, Cravens reached back and attempt to hit Brown. The two opposing players began fighting while teammates from both schools tried to stop the fight.
Brown, and Cravens were both ejected from the game. Brown’s teammates Nya Robertson, Jayla Thornton, Caia Loving, and Nya Lok, were also ejected. TCU’s Lucy Ibeh and Roxane Makolo were also ejected.
GW Athletics sent a statement to ESPN regarding the fight.
“Yesterday’s incident was obviously challenging and unfortunate for our student-athletes and coaches and we are working with the necessary parties on the path forward.”
TCU’s coach, Raegan Pebley, spoke to reporters after the game.
“We never want to be a part of anything like that. It doesn’t matter to me one bit who started it, who said what. It doesn’t matter. … I definitely know that we have, as do they, high-character kids that the moment got away from all of them.”
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