{"id":183285,"date":"2026-03-08T15:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T15:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/183285\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T15:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T15:51:09","slug":"furious-utep-fan-threatens-to-hit-jacksonville-state-players-with-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/183285\/","title":{"rendered":"Furious UTEP Fan Threatens To Hit Jacksonville State Players With Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23986805\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/UTEP-JSU.png\" alt=\"UTEP Fans Jacksonville State\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">ESPN<\/p>\n<p>A University of Texas-El Paso fan is facing investigation after picking up a chair and seemingly threatening Jacksonville State after a wild ending in Saturday\u2019s Conference USA men\u2019s basketball game between the two teams.<\/p>\n<p>Jacksonville State won the regular-season finale, 64-61,\u00a0 on a buzzer-beating 3-pointer by Mostapha El Moutaouakkil. But it\u2019s after the game when the fireworks really kicked off.<\/p>\n<p>With the teams walking through the handshake line, the fan appeared to begin yelling at JSU players before picking up a chair and waving it in the direction of the players.\u00a0 Jacksonville State players then had to be held back by staffers after engaging in an argument with the fan.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">UTEP, Jacksonville State and Conference USA will review an altercation that appeared to involve a UTEP fan picking up a chair in a fiery exchange with Jacksonville State players on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/T5GoZfhd8A\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/T5GoZfhd8A<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/idglo3ohFT\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/idglo3ohFT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ESPN (@espn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/espn\/status\/2030503196842442881?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 8, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Conference USA And Both Schools To Investigate UTEP-Jacksonville State Madness<\/p>\n<p>After the incident, both Conference USA and UTEP\u2019s athletic director, Jim Senter, addressed the matter, while Jacksonville State said it would defer to the conference regarding the matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are going to review the video when we attain it,\u201d Sentner said in a statement to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/story\/_\/id\/48137700\/utep-fan-clash-jacksonville-state-players-review\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN<\/a>. \u201cWe will take appropriate action as needed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, CUSA spokesperson Josh Yonis told ESPN that the conference is \u201c\u2026Reviewing the incident in conjunction with both [athletic directors], but we do not have a statement at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, Jacksonville State personnel and police officers stepped in to prevent an even uglier situation and diffuse the matter. Though other videos appeared to show additional UTEP fans going back-and-forth with Jacksonville State players after the game ended.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN\u2019s broadcast of the game claimed that the fans had been going back and forth with Jacksonville State players throughout the contest before the dustup.<\/p>\n<p>With the loss, UTEP was knocked out of contention for a spot in the CUSA conference tournament. Jacksonville State, on the other hand, enters as the No. 7 seed and will face 10th-seeded New Mexico State in the first round on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ESPN A University of Texas-El Paso fan is facing investigation after picking up a chair and seemingly threatening&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8294,116,118,117,4642,5925],"class_list":{"0":"post-183285","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-college-basketball","9":"tag-jacksonville","10":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","11":"tag-jacksonville-news","12":"tag-jacksonville-state-gamecocks","13":"tag-utep-miners"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}