BGSU Women’s Basketball Player Socked In Face In Handshake Line After WNIT Game

Ugly scene following an NCAA girls’s basketball sport on Thursday evening … a Bowling Green State Univ. participant was socked within the face in a handshake line.

The sucker punch went down simply seconds after BGSU beat Memphis, 73-60, in a spherical of 16 sport within the girls’s NIT.

Broadcast cameras confirmed Bowling Green’s Elissa Brett bought into some kind of argument with Memphis’ Jamirah Shutes … earlier than Shutes reared again and threw a straight proper at Brett’s face.

The punch related flush — sending Brett crashing to the court docket. Shutes was instantly restrained by her coach.

Brett stayed down for a number of moments — finally bursting out into tears. She was, fortunately, in the end in a position to stroll off the court docket below her personal energy.

It’s unclear what sparked the incident, after the sport, BGSU head coach Robyn Fralick advised reporters, “We’re still trying to figure out all those things out and what happened.”

BGSU, in the meantime, launched a press release late Thursday evening saying cops at the moment are concerned within the state of affairs.

“The incident that took place following tonight’s home WNIT game has been turned over to the BGSU Police Department,” the college stated.

“Bowling Green State University Athletics does not make comments about active police investigations. Our priority is with the health, safety and support of our student-athletes.”