Bowling Green police are investigating an assault that occurred after a women’s basketball game between the Falcons and Memphis Tigers at the Stroh Center in Bowling Green, Ohio on Thursday night.
Bowling Green beat Memphis 73-60 in the third round of the Women’s NIT. Elissa Brett scored 15 points for the Falcons, while Jamirah Shutes scored 13 for Memphis.
The two players had some conflict during the game when Shutes gave Brett a hard foul.
Then after the game, Shutes stopped Brett in the handshake line to confront her. Shutes smacked Brett, knocking Brett to the ground before Shutes was pushed away.
Bowling Green athletics issued a statement saying that the incident has been turned over to the Bowling Green State University Police Department.
This is the second incident during a postgame handshake line that has gone poorly in women’s postseason basketball over the last week.
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