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BATON ROUGE, La. \u2013 Clearly, that frequent scowl of Dawn Staley was not there.<\/p>\n
Her No.1 and undefeated South Carolina women\u2019s basketball team had just come back from a double-digit deficit to beat No. 9 LSU, 76-70, before a sellout crowd of 13,205 mostly unfriendly fans Thursday night at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center.<\/p>\n
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LSU head coach Kim Mulkey, facing, greets South Carolina head coach Dawn Staley before an NCAA college basketball game in Baton Rouge, La., Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024. South Carolina won 76-70.\u00a0<\/span> (AP Photo\/Gerald Herbert)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n“Actually they were nice, they were calling me, Boo,” Staley said and laughed.<\/p>\n
CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Not even a question by OutKick about her continued, stubborn reluctance without grounds to not re-schedule Brigham Young University because of an alleged racial slur by a fan at a volleyball game at BYU in 2022 angered her.<\/p>\n
But it did surprise her.<\/p>\n
South Carolina\u2019s Dawn Staley Stunned By BYU Question<\/h2>\n “Where did that come from?” a stunned Staley asked and raised her right arm high as if to say, “Out of nowhere.”<\/p>\n
Staley, who subsequently canceled games against BYU in response to the volleyball incident, has not had any comment on the situation since a few weeks after the story broke in September of 2022. OutKick asked on this night if she still did not want to schedule BYU after more than two years to look back on it.<\/p>\n
“That\u2019s grabbing something from the air,” she said.<\/p>\n
“Is that a no?,” OutKick asked. There was no answer.<\/p>\n
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Head coach Dawn Staley of the South Carolina Gamecocks reacts during their game against the East Carolina Lady Pirates in Williams Arena at Minges Coliseum on December 30, 2023 in Greenville, North Carolina. SC won 73-36.\u00a0<\/span> (Lance King\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nSouth Carolina (18-0, 6-0 Southeastern Conference) likely would still be undefeated had it played BYU in Provo, Utah early this season as originally scheduled. BYU is 12-8 and 2-5 on the season after going 16-17 and 9-9 last season.<\/p>\n
On Aug. 26, 2022, in Provo, Utah, BYU beat Duke, 3-1, in a college volleyball game. Duke freshman player Rachel Richardson said a BYU fan shouted racial comments at her, and soon the story went viral, and Staley canceled the BYU game from her team\u2019s schedule for the 2022-23 season as well as this season.<\/p>\n
SEC HITS SOUTH CAROLINA BASKETBALL WITH HEFTY FINE AFTER FANS STORM COURT FOLLOWING UPSET WIN OVER KENTUCKY<\/strong><\/p>\nSoon after, though, BYU Police said they were unable to confirm that a fan or anyone had yelled such slurs. BYU associate athletic director Jon McBride said BYU banned the accused fan identified by Duke as saying the slurs from any future BYU volleyball matches.<\/p>\n
“However, we have been unable to find any evidence of that person using slurs in the match,” McBride told the Salt Lake City Tribune.<\/p>\n
The South Carolina Freedom Caucus of more than 12 state lawmakers spoke louder about the behavior by Staley and South Carolina. It sent a letter dated Sept. 15, 2022, to Staley, athletic director Ray Tanner and the university asking for clarification on the decision to cancel the series with BYU. They called that decision an “ill-advised overreaction to an apparent erroneous claim,” in the letter.<\/p>\n
Dawn Staley, South Carolina Rushed To Judgment Vs. BYU Fan<\/h2>\n “Given the totality of the circumstances, it seems the University of South Carolina rushed to appease the loudest voices of the far left by \u2018canceling\u2019 BYU both literally and figuratively without respect for the truth,” the caucus continued in the letter. “It is our opinion the university acted arbitrarily and capriciously without consideration or regard for the facts and circumstances.”<\/p>\n
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Nov 24, 2023; Columbia, South Carolina, USA; South Carolina Gamecocks head coach Dawn Staley directs her team against the Mississippi Valley State Devilettes in the first half at Colonial Life Arena. \u00a0<\/span> (Jeff Blake-USA TODAY Sports)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nBut Dawn Staley held her ground then.<\/p>\n
CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n “I exchanged information with BYU and Duke, and I still came to the same conclusion,” she said after that on Sept. 29, 2022, to the Greenville News. “We\u2019re just going to have to agree to disagree in this instance. Did (Richardson) come out and say that she apologized for hearing something wrong? That\u2019s her story, and that\u2019s what she\u2019s sticking with. Until she comes out and says that \u2013 and I\u2019ll be the first to apologize and say I\u2019m wrong \u2013 but that has yet to come out. So, that\u2019s what I\u2019m sticking with.”<\/p>\n
Richardson has not made any such comments since.<\/p>\n
South Carolina said in 2022 that Staley would have no more comments on the matter. And she held to that on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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