Eight players ejected at UNLV-Utah State after benches-clearing brawl

Eight players were ejected following a benches-clearing brawl between the UNLV and Utah State women's basketball teams.

The melee broke out after UNLV's Katie Powell and Utah State's Antoina Robinson began to scuffle in the third quarter shortly after the Lady Rebels' Brooke Johnson was fouled.

"Throughout the game [Robinson] was playing a little dirty. Words were exchanged. I just told her to chill out," Powell told the Las Vegas Review-Journal after game. "And then we came to the other side of the floor. Brooke got fouled. I was walking to go help her up. She bumped me and then pushed me and then I just kind of swung at her."

Players from both teams rushed toward the scrum as the referees…