The top-ranked South Carolina Gamecocks went into their SEC competition last with the LSU Tigers looking to go into the ladies’s NCAA competition with an unbeaten record. They ended up just hoping to surface the videogame with sufficient gamers.
With simply over 2 minutes to go in the South Carolina’s ultimate 79-72 win, an deliberate nasty on LSU’s Flau’jae Johnson led to a scuffle at midcourt that saw gamers leaving the bench location and even household members leaping out of the stands and onto the court.
This was the scene in Greenville:
LSU and South Carolina gamers got into a scuffle in the 4th quarter of the SEC Championship. pic.twitter.com/rXw1tb1jWM
— ESPN (@espn) March 10, 2024
As the scuffle intensified, South Carolina’s Kamilla Cardoso pressed Johnson, leading to Cardoso’s ejection from the videogame (and suspension for the veryfirst round of the NCAA competition).
I’ve neverever seen anything like this.
• Intentional nasty on Flau’Jae Johnson
• Fighting on Kamilla Cardoso
• Both bench