Wild Brawl Breaks Out In Handshake Line After College Basketball Game

A school basketball sport seemed extra just like the Royal Rumble on Monday … with the postgame handshakes going from sportsmanlike to straight-up violent in one of many wildest brawls up to now.

The scrap went down after Texas A&M-Commerce defeated Incarnate Phrase 76-72 on the Alice P. McDermott Convocation Middle in San Antonio …. when sooner or later in saying “good game,” two opponents bought ticked off and ran into one another.

It is unclear what precisely led to the altercation, nevertheless it shortly escalated … with gamers from each groups throwing arms.

Regardless of the makes an attempt of coaches, staffers, and peaceable athletes to interrupt all of it up, the combat continued for at the very least a minute earlier than the groups have been separated.

In accordance with the ESPN broadcast, a “young girl” within the crowd was injured sooner or later … and one other workforce supervisor was bleeding from the face.

Each groups addressed the incident in a press release shortly after the sport … saying, “The University of the Incarnate Word and Texas A&M University-Commerce apologize for the behavior exhibited by our respective men’s basketball programs following the game on Monday night.”

“There is no place in college sports for such actions. The unsportsmanlike conduct that occurred after the game does not reflect the values of the universities involved, as well as the Southland Conference and their member institutions.”