Jason Williams apologizes for behavior during Florida-Texas Tech Super Regional
By Andrew Olson
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Jason Williams says things got out of hand this weekend at the Gainesville Super Regional. The former Florida basketball player apologized for his role in escalating tensions between the Gators and Red Raiders in the best-of-3 series.
Williams was back on campus to cheer on his daughter, Mia Williams. The younger Williams played her first two collegiate seasons with the Florida softball team before transferring to Texas Tech. The No. 6 seed Gators and and No. 11 seed Red Raiders were paired in the NCAA Tournament bracket for a spot in the Women’s College World Series.
On Friday, Jason Williams and his daughter, Mia’s younger sister, were involved in an altercation that saw a Florida fan removed from Katie Seashole Pressly Stadium. Mia Williams hit the game-winning home run in Game 1 and helped the Red Raiders take the series’ rubber match in Game 3, punching Texas Tech’s ticket to Oklahoma City.
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Following Game 3, Florida and Texas Tech players did not shake hands. Williams accused Florida coach Tim Walton of getting ejected during the game to avoid having to shake hands with Mia Williams.
In a social media post Monday, Williams covered all the major points of an eventful weekend, acknowledging his Gator roots.
“I’ve been doing a whole lot of hollering this past weekend, voice gone rooting on the Red Raiders from Texas Tech against the Gators from Florida. Yeah, I had an eventful weekend,” Jason Williams said, as transcribed by On3. “My daughter did her thing; the whole team did their thing. But especially proud of my daughter going back to Florida and doing what she did, going through the s–t she went through this past weekend. If you guys watched the game, you guys know what time it is. You guys see how them Florida Gators acted at the end of the game. They didn’t really want to shake hands. They didn’t want to do none of that.”
“The crowd tried to get me ejected, this that and the third,” Williams added. “Some fans hit my youngest daughter with some objects. We were asked if we wanted to press charges. Nah, we ain’t ’bout that. Let that little old lady live, man. She ain’t got much longer to go, so let her go on and live, man. We didn’t do nothing to her. She was just mad that the Gators was losing, and that’s cool. That’s what she’s supposed to be. She’s supposed to be mad when the Gators are losing if she’s a real fan. But she ain’t supposed to be hitting little girls with objects and s–t like that. But that’s for another day.”
“Look, we’re moving on to the (Women’s College) World Series. We want to do what’s right. We were cheering for our team, they were cheering for their team. Things got out of hand. They said some stuff that they wasn’t supposed to say, we said some stuff we probably wasn’t supposed to say, and that’s just sports. That’s what time it is. God knows what time it is in between the lines. So with that all being said, I just want everybody know that I’m happy. I’m happy we won. I’m a Florida Gator in my blood. Without Florida, I wouldn’t be where I’m at today. So like I said, they said some things they shouldn’t have said and we said some things we shouldn’t have said. So, we’re sorry from our side. That’s all I can say.”
Jason Williams talks about the eventful weekend he had!
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Andrew writes about sports to fund his love of live music and collection of concert posters. He strongly endorses the Hall of Fame campaigns of Fred Taylor and Andruw Jones.
