The Memphis girls’s basketball participant who socked an opponent within the face throughout a handshake line following a recreation Thursday evening has been charged with assault, TMZ Sports activities has realized.

In accordance with Bowling Inexperienced State Univ. officers … Tigers senior guard Jamirah Shutes was hit with the legal cost on Friday morning — roughly 12 hours after she punched BGSU participant Elissa Brett throughout an incident following their recreation within the girls’s NIT.

The 2 had gotten right into a verbal argument after BGSU’s 73-60 win … which led to Shutes sucker-punching the lady within the face.

Brett crumpled to the courtroom in ache, and was later seen in tears. In accordance with police paperwork, cops seen swelling in her proper eye. The varsity stated Friday, although, she is “recovering and doing nicely.”

It is nonetheless unclear what sparked the altercation. A police investigation is ongoing, the college stated.

BGSU added in a press release that it is also “conducting its personal overview” into the matter … saying, “Violence isn’t acceptable and our precedence stays the well being, security and help of our student-athlete.”

Neither Shutes nor Brett has publicly commented on all of it.

Memphis Univ. did launch a press release on the matter on Friday morning, calling the incident “extraordinarily unlucky and positively not in keeping with, or consultant of, our expectations for our packages and student-athletes.”