Before Sunday’s NCAA women’s basketball championship between the University of Iowa and the University of South Carolina, one of the players from Iowa said she deleted her social media accounts because of negative comments directed toward her.
Iowa’s Gabbie Marshall told reporters during a press conference before Sunday’s game that she received “hate comments” because of a controversial foul call in the closing seconds of Friday’s Final Four win over the University of Connecticut. During that game, UConn’s Aaliyah Edwards was called for a moving screen foul on Marshall with under five seconds left and UConn trailing 70-69. Many viewers of the game were upset with the foul and thought it should not have been called.
Marshall was asked if she had experienced any negative fallout.
“Yeah, a little bit. I kind of deleted social media,” Marshall replied. “I feel like it just kind
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