Jacksonville State basketball players get into heated clash with fan after win over UTEP

Jacksonville State Gamecocks men’s hoops players were seen successful a heated confrontation with a UTEP instrumentality pursuing the extremity of their last regular-season crippled connected Saturday night.

The incidental occurred astatine the extremity of handshakes betwixt the Gamecocks and Miners players. The crippled itself came down to the ligament with Jacksonville State defeating their Conference USA hostile arsenic Mostapha El Moutaouakkil deed the buzzer-beating 3-pointer for the win.

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Conference USA logo shown connected the level earlier a assemblage hoops crippled betwixt the Liberty Flames and Jacksonville State Gamecocks astatine Liberty Arena connected Feb. 27, 2025 successful Lynchburg, Virginia.  (Mitchell Layton/Getty Images)

The ESPN broadcast showed 1 instrumentality successful a achromatic UTEP sweater pointing and yelling astatine Gamecocks players. Jacksonville State defender Jaye Nash was seen confronting the instrumentality with benches and chairs successful betwixt the 2 men. Another pistillate besides got progressive successful the shouting.

Somehow, the incidental escalated adjacent further with the instrumentality picking up a seat successful his 1 arm. Jacksonville State hoops unit were trying to calm the concern down. UTEP players stepped successful trying to get information down to the floor.

The referee holds the shot during the archetypal fractional betwixt the Gonzaga Bulldogs and the McNeese State Cowboys successful the archetypal circular of the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament astatine Delta Center connected March 21, 2024 successful Salt Lake City, Utah.  (Christian Petersen/Getty Images)

Conference USA is looking into the incident.

"We are reviewing the incidental successful conjunction with some [athletic directors], but we bash not person a connection astatine this time," a league spokesperson told ESPN.

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UTEP diversion manager Jim Senter said the schoolhouse would "review the video" erstwhile they drawback it. Jacksonville State said it would "defer" remark to Conference USA.

It’s unclear what sparked the incident. ESPN broadcasters said during the crippled immoderate fans should person been kicked retired of the gym agelong earlier the fracas erupted.

A Wilson authoritative NCAA Evo NXT hoops with the March Madness logo approaches the rim and the net. The enactment takes spot astatine Intrust Bank Arena successful Wichita, Kansas, connected March 19, 2025. (Kirby Lee/Imagn Images)

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The Conference USA men’s hoops tourney begins Tuesday.

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