South Carolina apologizes to LSU for song choice after win - ESPN

The University of South Carolina's athletics department issued an apology to LSU and women's basketball player Flau'Jae Johnson on Sunday in response to the Gamecocks' DJ playing a song by Johnson's late father at the end of Friday's game between the teams at Colonial Life Arena. The athletics department said the DJ, known as T.O., would be suspended for a game.

«We are addressing Friday night's inappropriate in-game song selection and subsequent [social media] post by the DJ who is hired to work our women's basketball games,» South Carolina's statement said. «Her actions were understandably upsetting to Flau'Jae Johnson and her family and disrespectful to the LSU program and fans.»

No. 2 South Carolina defeated No. 5 LSU 66-56 in Columbia, South Carolina, in a game that was pushed back a day by weather issues that delayed LSU's travel.

The song «Cut Friends» by the rapper Camouflage, who was Johnson's father, Jason Johnson, was played as the Gamecocks celebrated their victory. Flau'Jae Johnson thought that was in poor taste. Her father was killed in a shooting in Georgia in 2003, about six months before she was born.

«I'll take my L on the chin, but this just nasty behavior. Nun funny bout that,» Johnson wrote on social media.

The DJ initially replied to the Johnson's comment with «My bad» and a laughing emoji. But she then issued an apology, writing, «It is never my intent to disrespect anyone or offend anyone when my job is to have fun and make sure other people have a good time.… I've been playing [the song] for years, even at other games, but I shouldn't have played it at yesterday's game.»

South Carolina said it will be talking more to the DJ about the situation.

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