After the LSU Tigers defeated the UCLA Bruins in the Sweet 16, there was a clip that went viral of Angel Reese showing displeasure towards one of the UCLA assistants.
Reese mentioned that it wasn’t Cori Close who was making the comments, although the video didn’t show who it was. Over the weekend, UCLA’s head coach chimed in on that discussion, per Andrew Graham of On3.
“That’s just not who we are,” Close said. “I don’t want to say anything about Angel, I will only speak to what the Bruins are and the Bruins are classy, speaking life into each other. We are not going to give that any — we would never do that. And especially would never come from one of my coaches. So we will — maybe she heard something mistakenly but I can tell you, and I’m not saying anything about Angel — I’m just saying from what comes from my camp, absolutely not.”
Here’s the video of the incident:
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Reese didn’t go into details on exactly what was said, other than “It was another coach that was talking a little crazy.”
LSU saw its season end at the hands of Caitlin Clark and the Iowa Hawkeyes in the Elite Eight on Monday.