New Mexico State ahead Robert Carpenter was issued a flagrant foul 2 and subsequently ejected after punching Liberty ahead Shiloh Robinson within the face throughout the first quarter of the Aggies’ 79-73 dwelling extra time win.
The 2 had been tussling within the paint. Because the motion moved the opposite means, Robinson turned and ran into Carpenter, who was guarding him. Carpenter then threw the haymaker, knocking Robinson down onto the courtroom. The Flames ahead didn’t return to the sport afterward.
Aggies head coach Jason Hooten, who stated he had not had a possibility to evaluation the incident, believes Carpenter shall be suspended by Convention USA.
“Even if there was something that put Rob in that state of mind to do what he did, it’s still not acceptable,” Hooten stated after the sport. “That’s not the way that we’re going to do things here at New Mexico State University.”
He additionally apologized to Liberty’s head coach Ritchie McKay.
Carpenter, who’s averaging 10.2 factors and 4.1 rebounds per sport, may even sit out New Mexico’s subsequent sport, suspension or not, based on Hooten.
“My rule is he won’t play on Saturday,” he stated.
Hooten added that Carpenter is a “really good kid, there’s just no room, no room for that in the game, at all.”
Carpenter, a 6-foot-7 junior, transferred to NMSU from Mississippi Valley State.
The Aggies are 10-12, good for third place in CUSA.
