00:00As she attempted to push past the defense, they started playing dirty.
00:04JC Sheldon poked Caitlin Clark in the eye, bumped her,
00:07and then Marina Mabry came in and bashed Caitlin into the ground.
00:10Caitlin had been walking all over the entire Connecticut Sun team all match,
00:14and they were clearly quite salty about it.
00:17The abrupt violence of the attack on her confused Caitlin,
00:20but after the officials reviewed the footage, their verdict was even more confusing.
00:25See, to most people doing the calculations at home,
00:27it looked like Caitlin was due for four, maybe even five free throws.
00:31JC and Marina had almost certainly committed what's known as a flagrant foul,
00:35which would award two free throws each,
00:38and Tina Charles was likely on the hook for a technical foul,
00:40which awards one free throw.
00:42However, the officials only awarded three in total.
00:45JC had received a flagrant, and Tina had received a technical,
00:49but arguably the worst attack of them all by Marina Mabry,
00:52which really should have resulted in an ejection from the stadium,
00:55was only given a technical foul,
00:58which ended up being cancelled out anyway,
01:00because somehow Caitlin herself also received a technical foul.
01:04Why should she get one?
01:05Caitlin Clark did not initiate any of that.
01:07It was starting to seem like Connecticut Sun
01:09weren't the only ones who had a vendetta against Caitlin.
01:12In the play before this moment,
01:14Caitlin had also been given a foul for making physical contact
01:17while Tina Charles was shooting.
01:19However, looking at the replay of that moment,
01:21Caitlin hadn't touched Tina at all,
01:23yet the foul stood.
01:24Caitlin was furious at the injustice
01:27and the incompetence of the officials,
01:29but she stayed focused.
01:30She made all of her free throws,
01:31and in the fourth quarter scored another three-point shot
01:35right over JC's head.
01:36It was cathartic,
01:37but the team's revenge wasn't over yet.
01:40As a final nail in the coffin,
01:42as JC barged her way up the court towards Sophie Cunningham
01:45with only seconds left in the game,
01:47Sophie took the opportunity to exact her own revenge
01:50for JC's earlier attack,
01:52using JC's own momentum to slam her into the ground.
01:56JC jumped back up to try and fight her,
01:58but Sophie just calmly grabbed JC by the hair
02:01and continued taunting her.
02:02Sophie smiled as she and JC were ejected from the stadium,
02:06and Indiana Fever won the game.
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