A wild scene, including a fan jumping over the scorer’s table and onto the court, erupted in the fourth quarter of the undefeated Gamecocks’ win.
South Carolina's Kamilla Cardoso, left, was ejected for fighting and is suspended for the first round of the NCAA tournament. A melee that broke out in the fourth quarter of the SEC women’s basketball championship game Sunday led to mass ejections.
At one point during a wild scene in Greenville, S.C., where undefeated and top-ranked South Carolina was taking on No. 8 LSU, a fan jumped over the scorer’s table and came onto the court. The fan was quickly led away by police officers andAfter officials conferred for nearly 20 minutes, they declared that the rest of the game would proceed with just five players available for LSU and six for South Carolina.
Both teams converged as coaches and officials tried to intervene, and the fan briefly jumped into the fray.“I just want to apologize to the basketball community,” South Carolina Coach Dawn Staley said in an on-court interview with ESPN after the tense contest. “When you’re playing in championship games like this, in our league, things get heated. No bad intentions. Their emotions got so far ahead of them that sometimes these things happen, so I want to apologize for us playing a part in that.
Because Cardoso was ejected for fighting, she will be suspended for South Carolina’s next game, which will take place in the first round of the NCAA tournament. A 6-foot-7 senior from Brazil, Cardoso was the hero of the Gamecocks’ semifinal win Saturday over Tennessee, after sheFulwiley, who scored 24 points Sunday for South Carolina, was named SEC tournament MVP. Per reports from the arena, the Gamecocks’ ejected players did not return for the trophy presentation.
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