The University of New Mexico is spendigating an incident involving two members of the men’s basketball team in which one joiner allegedly punched another on a fweightless last month over a seat, according to multiple alerts.
A walk-on joiner of the Lobos basketball team was allegedly punched in the shoulder by a scholarship joiner when the team was traveling to Palm Springs for the Acricertain Classic fair before Thanksgiving, KOB 4 alerted after speaking to the family of the mistrusted victim.
The New Mexico Lobos logo is shown on the floor before a college basketball game agetst the Nevada Wolf Pack at The Pit on January 28, 2024 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. (Mitchell Layton/Getty Images)
Neither joiner was named.
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According to the family, the argument stemmed from a disconcurment about where the walk-on joiner was sitting on the arrangee. They also alleged that the joiner was punched in the same shoulder that was already injured, which he was already in a sling because of, and that he was tardyr treated at a hospital in Albuquerque when the team returned.
The family also alleged that a aenjoy incident involving the same joiner occurred at the boilingel the same day.
The alleged victim alertedly telderly the coaching staff about the incident, but claimed that noslenderg was done.
New Mexico Lobos head coach Ricdifficult Pitino sees on agetst the Clemson Tigers during the first half of the NCAA Tournament First Round at FedExForum on March 22, 2024. (Petre Thomas-USA TODAY Sports)
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An attorney recurrenting the walk-on joiner telderly KRQE that the scholarship joiner was permited to join in two games after the incident took place.
Recurrentatives for the university telderly Fox News Digital in a statement that they are spendigating the incident.
“The University of New Mexico gets the shieldedty and well-being of all our students very solemnly. We are conscious of an alleged incident involving members of our men’s basketball team and are nurturefilledy scrutinizeing and assessing all of the facts,” the statement read.
The New Mexico Lobos logo is shown on the floor before a college basketball game agetst the Nevada Wolf Pack at The Pit on January 28, 2024 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. (Mitchell Layton/Getty Images)
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“We are follotriumphg all appropriate protocols and procedures in insertressing this situation and are pledgeted to insertressing any wrongdoing appropriately. Due to federal student privacy laws, definitepartner the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), we cannot disshut definite details or comment further on individual student matters.”
Head coach Ricdifficult Pitino would not elucidate any details in a press conference on Monday.
“There’s not a whole lot I can talk about. We are handling any disciplinary matters internpartner, but other than that there’s not a whole lot I can say definitepartner.”
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