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LSU girls’s basketball got here beneath fireplace on Monday evening after the crew didn’t come out for the nationwide anthem earlier than its regional last sport towards the Iowa Hawkeyes.
A video from OutKick’s Dan Zaksheske confirmed Iowa gamers holding fingers in the course of the rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner.” LSU had left the courtroom proper earlier than the anthem was performed.
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Angel Reese of the LSU Woman Tigers high-fives Hailey Van Lith after a play towards the Iowa Hawkeyes in the course of the Elite 8 spherical of the NCAA Girls’s Basketball Match held at MVP Enviornment on April 1, 2024, in Albany, New York. (Scott Taetsch/NCAA Photographs by way of Getty Photographs)
Iowa gained the sport 97-84 behind Caitlin Clark’s 41 factors.
LSU head coach Kim Mulkey was requested after the sport why the crew didn’t come out for the nationwide anthem. Mulkey chalked it as much as “routine.”
“Actually, I do not even know when the anthem was performed,” Mulkey mentioned, by way of OutKick. “We type of have a routine when (our gamers are) on the ground, they usually come off on the 12-minute mark (previous to the sport).
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The LSU Tigers huddle earlier than the Elite 8 spherical of the NCAA Girls’s Basketball Match on April 1, 2024, in Albany. (Andy Lyons/Getty Photographs)
“I do not know, we are available in and we do our pregame stuff. I am sorry, pay attention, that is nothing deliberately carried out.”
The Comeback famous final yr that LSU wasn’t on the ground for the nationwide anthem earlier than they performed Iowa for the nationwide championship. It sparked controversy on social media as effectively.
Kim Mulkey of the LSU Woman Tigers watches in the course of the Iowa Hawkeyes sport at MVP Enviornment on April 1, 2024, in Albany. (Scott Taetsch/NCAA Photographs by way of Getty Photographs)
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The Tigers have been the defending nationwide champions and had the sport tied on the half earlier than Clark got here alive within the third quarter. Clark hit 9 3-pointers on her method to an amazing sport.
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