South Carolina’s athletic department has apologized to LSU women’s basketball star Flau’jae Johnson and her family following the Gamecocks’ arena DJ playing a song by her late father during South Carolina’s win against LSU on Friday.
In a statement, South Carolina described the song choice as “inappropriate,” and revealed the DJ, who is known as DJ T.O., has been suspended for the Gamecocks’ next home game.
“Her actions were understandably upsetting to Flau’Jae Johnson and her family and disrespectful to the LSU program and fans,” South Carolina said in a statement. “Conference rivalries and passionate fan bases should only serve to enhance sports, not be used to target individual players personally. We regret that it came to that in our venue after a game that saw both teams capture the level of national attention that women’s basketball has earned.”
No. 2 South Carolina defeated No. 5 LSU in one of the most anticipated matchups of the regular season. After the game went final, DJ T.O. played an instrumental version of “Cut Friends,”…
