{"id":2211044,"date":"2024-04-01T22:18:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T02:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lsu-skips-national-anthem-ahead-of-anticipated-ncaa-elite-eight-matchup\/"},"modified":"2024-04-01T22:18:31","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T02:18:31","slug":"lsu-skips-national-anthem-ahead-of-anticipated-ncaa-elite-eight-matchup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lsu-skips-national-anthem-ahead-of-anticipated-ncaa-elite-eight-matchup\/","title":{"rendered":"LSU opts out of National Anthem before highly anticipated NCAA Elite Eight game"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flsu-skips-national-anthem-ahead-of-anticipated-ncaa-elite-eight-matchup%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2211044&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The\u2063 NCAA Elite Eight women&#8217;s game saw only Iowa players present\u2062 for \u200dthe national\u2062 anthem, while LSU was absent on the court. A video of the Iowa players linking arms during the anthem went viral online, \u200bhighlighting \u2064the contrast in pre-game\u2062 rituals \u2062between the two teams.\u2064 The NCAA \u200cElite Eight women&#8217;s\u200d game featured Iowa players \u2062standing\u2064 for the\u200b national anthem, \u2062contrasting with LSU&#8217;s absence on\u2062 the court. A viral video\u2063 captured\u2064 the Iowa players \u200blinking arms during the anthem, emphasizing the differing pre-game rituals of\u2064 the two teams.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_78\">\n<p>Ahead of the highly anticipated women\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/ncaa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>NCAA<\/a> Elite Eight <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/college-basketball\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>game<\/a> between the University of Iowa Hawkeyes and the Louisiana State University Tigers, only Iowa was present on the court for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/national-anthem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>national anthem<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealDanZak\/status\/1774938110192677111\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Video<\/a> quickly circulated online showing the Lady Hawkeyes on the court holding hands as the song played, while LSU\u2019s players spent the time in their locker room instead, <a href=\"https:\/\/thespun.com\/college-hoops\/video-lsus-national-anthem-decision-is-going-viral\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>according<\/a> to a report.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>Social media users sounded off about LSU\u2019s lacking presence, calling it \u201cembarrassing\u201d and \u201cdisgusting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI guess that\u2019s all I need to know about LSU,\u201d one person <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PPRFantasyTips\/status\/1774960190233661880\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>commented<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While some comments dismissed LSU\u2019s decision, one user wrote, \u201cIt\u2019s sad that people think that disrespecting the flag, the men &#038; the women that fought for our country is an acceptable thing to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A local Baton Rouge reporter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chessabouche\/status\/1774940414404882910\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>noted<\/a> that LSU routinely skips the national anthem.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Coming into the game, the No. 3 and reigning national champion LSU was looking to defend its title against the No. 1 Hawkeyes. The two teams faced each other last year in the national championship game.<\/p>\n<p>However, Monday night saw the Lady Hawkeyes advance to the Final Four in Cleveland, Ohio, beating the Lady Tigers 94-87. Iowa was led by Caitlin Clark, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/sports\/2896996\/caitlin-clark-enters-wnba-draft\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>announced<\/a> in February that she would enter the 2024 WNBA draft.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the lead-up to the women&#8217;s NCAA Elite Eight game featuring Iowa Hawkeyes versus LSU Tigers, only Iowa players stood on the court for the anthem. Video of the Lady Hawkeyes linking arms during the anthem went viral, contrasting with LSU&#8217;s absence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2689,"featured_media":2211045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP24093012252778-1024x683.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2211044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP24093012252778-1024x683.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2689"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2211044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2211045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2211044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2211044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2211044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}