The shocking moment a mass brawl erupts at a women’s college basketball game after one player accidentally pulled another’s hair.The fight broke out during a regular-season game between TCU and George Washington University Monday night – and saw eight players ejected.
Transpiring in the game’s second quarter, the sudden melee stemmed from a play when Washington’s Essence Brown appeared to get tangled in the hair of TCU’s 22-year-old senior Bella Cravens.
As Cravens goes up to retrieve a rebound, Brown, whose arms had been outstretched to obstruct any passing lanes, gets ensnared in her larger opponent’s also lengthy tresses at which point all hell breaks loose.
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The resulting frenzy saw several punches thrown, with multiple other players pulled in to the mayhem. Officials quickly put the kibosh on the unannounced scrimmage, and Cravens’ Horned Frogs managed a 70-56 win.
Aside from the ejections, repercussions for the eight players involved have yet to be handed out. The fight has since gone viral, as the midseason matchup was televised.
Ejected players
Cravens and Brown, both seniors, were among the eight ejected following the flareup, as well as two other players from TCU – Lucy Ibeh and Roxane Makolo – and Nya Robertson, Nya Lok, Jayla Thornton, and Caia Loving from George Washington.
Players from both schools, situated in Texas and Washington, DC, respectively, had attempted to separate Brown and Cravens, who got into each other’s faces after Craven appeared to become incensed by the hair-pull, which was ruled a foul.
