South Carolina coach Dawn Staley still won’t accept reality of unfounded racist claims involving BYU

 His No. 1 and undefeated South Carolina women's basketball team came back from a double-digit deficit to defeat No. 9 LSU, 76–70, in front of a crowd of 13,205 mostly unfriendly fans at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center on Thursday night.

“Actually they were nice, they were calling me boo,” Staley said and laughed.

Not a single question was asked by OutKick about her continued, stubborn unwillingness without grounds to reschedule Brigham Young University due to an alleged racial slur by a fan at a volleyball game at BYU in 2022 that angered her. Went.

South Carolina's Don Staley stunned by BYU's question

"Where did he come from?" a stunned Staley asked and raised her right hand as if to say, "Out of nowhere."

Staley, who later canceled the game against BYU in response to the volleyball incident, has not commented on the situation in the weeks since the story broke in September 2022. Outkick asked this night if she still didn't want to schedule BYU after more than two years and got a chance to revisit it.

South Carolina (18-0, 6-0 Southeastern Conference) would likely still be undefeated if it had played BYU in Provo, Utah, as originally scheduled earlier this season. BYU is 12-8 and 2-5 on the season after going 16-17 and 9-9 last season.

On August 26, 2022, in Provo, Utah, BYU defeated Duke 3–1 in a college volleyball game. Duke freshman player Rachel Richardson said a BYU fan made a racial slur at her, and the story soon went viral, and Staley pulled the BYU game from her team's schedule for this season as well as the 2022–23 season. Cancelled.

However, soon after, BYU Police said they were unable to confirm whether a fan or anyone else had uttered such profanities. BYU associate athletic director John McBride said BYU has banned the accused fan identified by Duke for abusing from any future BYU volleyball games.

"However, we have found no evidence that the individual used profanity at the game," McBride told the Salt Lake City Tribune.

The South Carolina Freedom Caucus of more than 12 state lawmakers spoke loudly about Staley and South Carolina's behavior. It sent a letter to Staley, athletic director Ray Tanner and the university on September 15, 2022, asking for clarification on the decision to cancel the series with BYU. He called that decision "an inappropriate response to a clearly false claim" in the letter.

Reached for decision in Don Staley, South Carolina v. BYU fan

The caucus continued in the letter, "Given the totality of the circumstances, it appears that the University of South Carolina attempted to appease the loudest voices of the far left by literally and figuratively 'cancelling' BYU without respect for the truth. Hastened." "We are of the opinion that the university acted arbitrarily or without considering the facts and circumstances."

She then told the Greenville News on September 29, 2022, "I exchanged information with BYU and Duke and I still came to the same conclusion." "We'll just have to agree to disagree on this matter. Has (Richardson) come out and said he's apologized for mishearing something? That's his story, and he stands by it. Until he comes out and It doesn't say that – and I'll be the first to apologize and say I'm wrong – but it hasn't come out yet. So, that's what I stand by."

Richardson has not made any such comments since.

South Carolina said in 2022 that Staley would not comment further on the matter. And she kept at it on Thursday night.