Louisiana State University’s women’s basketball team forbade first lady Jill Biden from visiting their locker room before their victory over Iowa, according to lead player Angel Reese.
Reese revealed the diss in an appearance on I Am Athlete’s Paper Route show. She said Biden was supposed to visit both locker rooms before the game.
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“Apparently she was supposed to come to our locker room before the game, but we said no,” she said, adding that her team didn’t speak with Biden directly. “She was supposed to come to our locker room and go to Iowa’s locker room. I don’t know if she talked to them.”
“But we said we didn’t want to. We didn’t want her coming into the locker room,” Reese continued.
Reese said the decision was over President Joe Biden’s March Madness bracket — he predicted LSU wouldn’t get very far.
“I think Joe Biden had put somebody else to win the national championship,” Reese said. “He didn’t even put us on his bracket to get out of Baton Rouge, so I was like, ‘Bet.’ … I think that he said we were going to lose to Michigan or something.”
Biden did have LSU losing to Michigan — in their second game. He also predicted a poor performance for Iowa, guessing they would lose to Stanford in their fourth game.
Reese also doubled down on calling Jill Biden’s proposal to invite the losing team to the White House a “joke.”
“That was from the heart,” Reese said about her controversial response. “That was from the mind. That was what it was in the moment.”
Reese said she doesn’t accept Jill Biden’s apology and would prefer to go see the Obamas.
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“As soon as that happened,” Reese said, “[the team] hit the group chat, like, ‘What’re we doing? Are y’all trying to go?’ … We made a lot of phone calls, and that’s why she wants to come and apologize. I’m not going to lie to you because I don’t accept her apology. … I said what I said. … You felt like [Iowa] should’ve came because of sportsmanship; they can have that spotlight. We’ll go to the Obamas. We’ll see Michelle. We’ll see Barack.”
Jill Biden later clarified that her comment was hyperbolic and was only meant to praise the playing of both teams. The first lady watched the final in a private box alongside tennis star Billie Jean King.
