LSU’s Sa’myah Smith pushed out, suspended in win over Oklahoma | LSU

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Officials pushed Sa’myah Smith from LSU Women’s Basketball Team’s 107-100 win over Oklahoma on Thursday.

Now the Tigers starter must earn a suspension of a game.

That’s because the game’s official crew gave Smith a disqualifying mistake – a penalty reserved for players involved in “matches” during games. Sore NCAA RulesThe players picking up these mistakes are automatically exposed from one game and suspended for another, which means Smith will miss LSU’s Sunday Matchup against Mississippi State (13.00, sec Network.)

“It hurt our team with (Smith) not to be part of tonight,” said coach Kim Mulkey, “because we are trying to develop her. We try to get her to the point where you can protect a Raegan beer and the big, physical postal players. You just can’t do it. “

Early in the first quarter of Thursday’s match, Smith Oklahoma Center Batrice Culliton fought position on the low block and then pushed her to the ground after the two met face to face. Soon forward Liz Scott retaliated by pushing Smith. Both Scott and Smith were then thrown out.

This dusting ignited a physical, scary game containing two spraying, three technical errors and an obvious error. Officials whistled LSU and Oklahoma for a combined 55 mistake which gave each team at least 30 trips to the free throwing line.

Oklahoma coach Jennie Baranczyk picked up one of these technical mistakes after she argued a call halfway through the second quarter, and Mulkey was beaten with a near 5:00 mark in the fourth. The third was given to LSU Center Aalyah del Rosario, after officials decided she was flopping while protruding Oklahoma star Raegan -beer in the position -Tigers’ second floating overgrowth of the game.

“I got up,” Mulkey said, “and she told me I was pointing to the big screen. I definitely looked at the big screen and I wasn’t really happy, but I don’t know if I pointed. But she’s across the road, so it’s just anything. “

Scott will also serve a suspension for Oklahoma’s next match, a Monday Home Competition against No. 12 Kentucky.

According to NCAA rules, if both players participate in another match, she will be suspended for the rest of the season, including tournament competition.