{"id":2211321,"date":"2024-04-02T11:53:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T15:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lsu-womens-basketball-team-loses-in-elite-8-after-skipping-national-anthem-while-iowa-team-held-hands-on-court\/"},"modified":"2024-04-02T11:53:32","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T15:53:32","slug":"lsu-womens-basketball-team-loses-in-elite-8-after-skipping-national-anthem-while-iowa-team-held-hands-on-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lsu-womens-basketball-team-loses-in-elite-8-after-skipping-national-anthem-while-iowa-team-held-hands-on-court\/","title":{"rendered":"LSU Women\u2019s Basketball Team loses in Elite 8, skipping National Anthem, contrasting Iowa Team holding hands on court"},"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\">36<\/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-womens-basketball-team-loses-in-elite-8-after-skipping-national-anthem-while-iowa-team-held-hands-on-court%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=2211321&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>On Monday night, LSU&#8217;s women&#8217;s basketball team left the court before the national anthem while the Iowa Hawkeye players stood holding hands during the anthem. Following a controversial\u2062 move, LSU coach Kim Mulkey explained it \u200cwas unintentional. Iowa won the game 94-87 and \u2064advanced to the Final Four, setting a rematch tone from last year&#8217;s NCAA Championship. LSU&#8217;s women&#8217;s basketball team left the \u2064court \u2063before the national anthem, while the Iowa Hawkeye players stood holding hands during the anthem. Coach Kim Mulkey clarified that it was unintentional. Iowa won 94-87, advancing to the Final Four,\u2063 intensifying the rematch \u200dnarrative from last year&#8217;s NCAA Championship.  <\/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<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">On Monday night, LSU\u2019s women\u2019s basketball team, which was about to play the Iowa Hawkeyes in Albany, New York, in the Elite 8 round of the NCAA tournament, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/college-basketball\/article-13261889\/lsu-american-national-anthem-iowa-elite8-march-madness.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">left the court<\/a> before the national anthem was played.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">While the anthem was being played, the Hawkeyes team stood on the court holding hands.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Iowa players holding hands during the American National Anthem. LSU players left the court before the anthem was performed. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GhCLHUXiBX\">pic.twitter.com\/GhCLHUXiBX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dan Zaksheske (@RealDanZak) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealDanZak\/status\/1774938110192677111?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 1, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cHonestly, I don\u2019t even know when the anthem was played. We kind of have a routine where we are on the floor and then they come off at the 12-minute mark. \u2026 We come in and do our pre-game stuff. I\u2019m sorry. Listen, that\u2019s nothing intentionally done,\u201d LSU coach Kim Mulkey said in an interview after the game.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kim Mulkey said her team didn&#8217;t intentionally leave the floor prior to the playing of the United States National Anthem. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Honestly, I don&#8217;t even know when the anthem was played. We kind of have a routine [for leaving the court at a certain time].&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JclJExC1Ym\">pic.twitter.com\/JclJExC1Ym<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dan Zaksheske (@RealDanZak) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealDanZak\/status\/1775005646741516666?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 2, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The game, which Iowa won 94-87, was a rematch of last year\u2019s NCAA Championship game, which LSU won 102-85. Iowa now will play in the Final Four.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Last year, the LSU women\u2019s team <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/04\/02\/sports\/kim-mulkey-explains-lsu-missing-national-anthem-vs-iowa-after-online-backlash\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">did not appear<\/a> during the playing of the national anthem before their game against Iowa in the national championship in Dallas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cLSU is never on the court for the National Anthem. \u2026 If you ever go to an actual LSU game you\u2019ll see that they\u2019re never on the court for the anthem. It\u2019s that simple. I\u2019ve covered them for 3 years &#038; they\u2019ve never been,\u201d Baton Rouge sports reporter Chessa Bouche stated.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">LSU is never on the court for the National Anthem <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tfsDAgdOjn\">https:\/\/t.co\/tfsDAgdOjn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chessa Bouche (@chessabouche) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chessabouche\/status\/1774940414404882910?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 1, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If you ever go to an actual LSU game you\u2019ll see that they\u2019re never on the court for the anthem. It\u2019s that simple. I\u2019ve covered them for 3 years &#038; they\u2019ve never been.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chessa Bouche (@chessabouche) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chessabouche\/status\/1775011534462206344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 2, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Iowa star Caitlin Clark scored 41 points and dished out 12 assists in the game on Monday; LSU star Angel Reese fouled out in the fourth quarter. It was the fifth time this year Clark scored more than 40 points.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cShe\u2019s just a generational player, and she just makes everybody around her better,\u201d Mulkey said of Clark. \u201cThat\u2019s what the great ones do. \u2026 What did I say to her? I said, I sure am glad you\u2019re leaving. I said, Girl, you something else. Never seen anything like it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1711847459151000&#038;usg=AOvVaw3OccKYAVbZP-9J-sgruazM\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cCaitlin\u2019s very skilled,\u201d LSU guard Hailey Van Lilth, who guarded Clark, said. \u201cShe\u2019s a great player. She hit some tough shots. There\u2019s not a whole lot you can do about some of the threes she hit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Elite 8 round in Albany, NY, LSU\u2019s women\u2019s basketball team exited the court before the national anthem, contrasting the Iowa Hawkeyes players who stood holding hands during the anthem<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":2211322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-2131432044.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2211321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-2131432044.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211321","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\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2211321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2211322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2211321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2211321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2211321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}