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CSU player argues with UNM staff for telling team to ‘focus more on studying and less on domestic violence’

Colorado State senior Emmanuel Omogbo and members of the New Mexico coaching staff were involved in a postgame altercation outside Moby Arena on Saturday.

Omogbo was caught on video by the Albuquerque Journal’s Geoff Grammer starting an argument with three coaches standing by the Lobos bus as he left the arena following an 84–71 loss. After Omogbo told assistant Terrence Rencher that he would “whoop [his] ass,” Rencher seemed to escalate the incident by telling Omogbo that “he ain’t whooping nothing.”

Omogbo was led away, as one member of the Rams travel party told Rencher to “grow up.