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The LSU girls’s basketball staff defeated the Caitlin Clark-led Iowa Hawkeyes in final season’s nationwide championship sport. The South Carolina Gamecocks received the nationwide title in 2022.
On Sunday, LSU and South Carolina met within the SEC Match championship. The Gamecocks received their ninth consecutive SEC title, however the sport was marred by an altercation.
A number of gamers have been ejected following the melee.
On Monday, the convention confirmed Gamecocks middle Kamilla Cardoso is not going to be eligible to play within the opening spherical of the NCAA Match. LSU star Angel Reese, the reigning SEC Participant of the 12 months, notably steered away from the scuffle.
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LSU ahead Angel Reese waves to followers after South Carolina beat LSU for the SEC championship on the Bon Secours Wellness Enviornment in Greenville, S.C., Sunday, March 10, 2024. (Ken Ruinard/Employees/USA At present Community)
On Monday, Reese took to social media to elucidate her determination to “stroll away.”
“As an individual at my STATUS, typically it’s important to stroll away from sure conditions,” Reese wrote on X, previously Twitter. She defined she was additionally coping with an harm on the time the battle broke out.
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Basketball Corridor of Famer Shaquille O’Neal, who Reese has described as a mentor, revealed he reached out to the LSU star and praised her for avoiding the dust-up.
“I see she’s taking loads of flak, ‘Oh, she ought to have been there,’” O’Neal advised USA At present.
Angel Reese (10) of the LSU Girl Tigers shoots a basket in opposition to Sania Feagin of the South Carolina Gamecocks within the second quarter throughout the championship sport of the SEC Match at Bon Secours Wellness Enviornment March 10, 2024, in Greenville, S.C. (Eakin Howard/Getty Photographs)
The four-time NBA champion additionally argued Reese’s major concern ought to at all times be preventing to assist her staff win video games.
“This isn’t preventing. The one factor it’s important to battle for is to battle in your staff,” O’Neal mentioned. “The sport was performed carefully. Issues like that — you don’t need them to occur. After they do occur, you simply transfer on.”
O’Neal praised Reese throughout a telephone name after the battle, saying she “did the correct factor.”
Shaquille O’Neal attends “Shaq’s Enjoyable Home.” (Medium Uncommon)
“I referred to as her and I mentioned, ‘You probably did the correct factor. Belief me, you probably did the correct factor, as a result of when you would have went on the market, they’d have been in search of you. You and [Kamilla] Cardoso get right into a shoving match. She’s already ejected. Can’t play within the subsequent spherical. That will have occurred to you. It might have been all of your fault.’ So, she did the correct factor. Kudos to her.”
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The bracket for the 2024 NCAA Division I girls’s basketball event might be finalized March 17. The event suggestions off March 20. The nationwide championship sport might be performed April 7 in Cleveland.
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