Women’s college basketball coach wears Kamala Harris shirt during first game after losing election
Tulane women’s basketball coach Ashley Langford wore a Kamala Harris shirt during her team’s loss to Nicholls State on Thursday.
Langford was wearing the shirt during the Fubo broadcast, and screenshots of it quickly went viral on social media.
Langford, 37, is in his first season as Tulane’s head coach. He played the show from 2005 to 2009. He was a four-year starter and set program records for career assists (722), assists per game (6.0), games started (121) and minutes played (4,162). .
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The city skyline and Bayou St. John earlier on Aug. 25, 2006, in New Orleans. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)
His freshman year at Tulane was the same year Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and the surrounding community. Langford and his teammates were expelled for the fall semester of 2005 and had to attend Texas Tech University.
On Dec. 18, 2005, Tulane women’s basketball became the first team to resume play in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. After finally being able to take the court, Langford ended up leading the Green Wave to four straight seasons, the 2006-07 regular season title and the 2007 WNIT.
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Ashley Langford, head coach of Tulane University, poses for a photo at the American Athletic Conference basketball press day at the Westin Irving Convention Center in Las Colinas Oct. 13, 2024, in Irving, Texas. (Andrew Wevers/Getty Images)
He got his first head coaching job with Stony Brook, where he went 69-24 (.742) in three seasons.
He will look to get his first win as the head coach of his alma mater on Tuesday against Missouri.
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Clothing that displays political messages in sports has become a controversial issue during the recent election cycle. San Francisco 49ers star Nick Bosa flashed a MAGA hat during a postgame interview Oct. 27.
Other figures in women’s basketball and women’s sports expressed disappointment at Harris’ loss to Trump, including WNBA star Angel Reese and Olympic gymnast Simone Biles.
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