Women's Hoops Blog

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Saturday, February 28, 2004

Well, before Thurdsay's game, we knew there was bad blood between Washington and ASU. So we knew it would be an intense game.

But it was apparently more than that.

After the game, Gioconda Mendiola slapped ASU player Kylan Loney. When ASU coach Turner Thorne complained to coach Daugherty, Gio said that she just went to high five Loney and Loney moved her hand.

That explanation probably didn't seem very plausible to begin with, and after the game, coach Daugherty talked to several people who saw the incident. Yesterday, she decided to suspend Mendiola for today's game.