M.A. VoepelESPN.com3 Minute Read
8 gamers ejected after scuffle between Kentucky and Florida
Eight gamers are ejected after Kentucky and Florida come collectively in a heated alternate on the SEC ladies’s basketball match.
Eight energetic gamers — 4 from every group — had been ejected from Wednesday’s SEC ladies’s basketball match sport between Florida and Kentucky due to a skirmish.
The 14th-seeded Wildcats defeated the Eleventh-seeded Gators 72-57 of their first-round sport at Bon Secours Wellness Arena in Greenville, South Carolina, however the scuffle — which delayed the sport 22 minutes as officers sorted out penalties — overshadowed the motion on the courtroom.
The incident began with 5:26 remaining within the second quarter, when Kentucky’s Ajae Petty pushed the ball at Florida’s Tatyana Wyche and rolled it up her face after the Wildcats scored. Wyche then threw the ball in Petty’s route — it didn’t hit anybody — and ran towards her.
Multiple gamers then engaged in a quick scrum in entrance of Kentucky’s bench. Wyche was known as for a technical foul and ejected for preventing. Petty was additionally known as for a technical however was not ejected.
Seven different energetic gamers had been ejected for leaving the bench: Florida’s Taliyah Wyche [Tatyana’s sister] and starters Ra Shaya Kyle and Faith Dut; and Kentucky reserves Saniah Tyler, Eniya Russell, Cassidy Rowe and Zennia Thomas.
Florida’s Zippy Broughton, out for the season with an harm, was inactive for the sport however was additionally tossed for leaving the bench.
Wildcats guard Robyn Benton and Gators guard Myka Perry had been known as for technical fouls however not ejected.
“That isn’t how we need to symbolize ourselves as Florida ladies’s basketball,” Gators coach Kelly Rae Finley mentioned in her opening assertion to reporters after the sport. “So before everything, I apologize for that. Because that’s not consultant of the SEC, the University of Florida, or how we compete.
“Beyond that, although, I used to be very, very pleased with our student-athletes for a way they completed the sport.”
Kentucky coach Kyra Elzy, who was briefly knocked over when each groups flooded towards the Wildcats’ bench, didn’t deal with the incident in her opening assertion.
When requested concerning the scenario by the media, Elzy known as it “a studying expertise.”
“Things occur,” Elzy mentioned. “This is 2 groups battling for wins. The depth was excessive. The feelings had been excessive. Obviously, myself or Coach Finley, that is not how we need to play out, and we’ll each deal with our groups.
“So it was an unlucky scenario. And it is a studying expertise for all coaches and student-athletes.”
Kentucky will subsequent face No. 6 seed Alabama within the second spherical of the SEC match on Thursday.
