Prior to his team's game against Monmouth last night, Iona Gaels head coach Tim Cluess took a shot at the Hawks' well-known, overenthusiastic bench, "Are they on the team?" he said. "I didn't know if they were on the team or wearing uniforms as cheerleaders. I've never seen them on the court doing anything, so to me, they're not basketball players." Instead of responding to the obvious diss by Cluess, the Hawks did their talking out on the court, defeating the Gaels, 110-102.
During the postgame handshakes, Iona's Jordan Washington inexplicably slapped Monmouth center Chris Brady in the face which led to a brief scuffle before both sides were separated.
As both teams left the court, Monmouth head coach King Rice blew a kiss to the Iona crowd.
"Chris' nose is about this swollen right now, so if [Washington] slapped Chris that hard, man he should maybe try MMA because nobody smacks, and the kid's nose is this big downstairs right now," Rice said to reporters in his postgame press conference. "So I don't know if it was a smack or what it was, but big Brady's nose is pretty messed up right now."
"There's going to be suspensions. I saw a couple of them and I'm not that happy about it. But when we see the video, something will happen when people lose their cool."
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