The Southland Conference has punished eight collegiate basketball players for their roles in the altercation that broke out after Texas A&M-Commerce’s game versus Incarnate Word.
On Monday night, the Texas A&M-Commerce Lions overcame the Incarnate Word Cardinals in overtime. However, a brawl broke out as soon as players started the customary postgame handshake line. As the brawl erupted across the basketball court, coaches, staff employees, and other players from both sides attempted to break up it.
What initially sparked the event is still unknown. Each team received a total of four player suspensions for what the conference called “flagrant unsportsmanlike actions.”
In the midst of the altercation, Jerome Brewer Jr., a 6-foot-9-inch sophomore forward from Texas A&M-Commerce, engaged in combat with his coaches, who were trying to stop him. Brewer Jr. attended Camden High School in New Jersey, one of the top teams in the nation.
The scrum kept moving across the court as Brewer battled his way through his own team, and eventually, he collapsed on top of his own teammates.
