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Shortly after West Virginia’s 69-59 win over Maryland Sunday night in the NCAA tournament, two daughters of Mountaineers Coach Bob Huggins tweeted out rape-related jokes in regard to the Terps’ Dez Wells. Jenna Leigh Huggins subsequently deleted those tweets from her account.
On Monday, Bob Huggins’ daughter took to Twitter again, this time to post several apologies:
Last night on Twitter I made a mistake in saying what I did about Dez Wells.
— Jenna Leigh Huggins (@JennaLeigh44) March 23, 2015
I want to apologize to Dez Wells, the UM team, the University, it’s fans, and the Jewish community for my remarks.
— Jenna Leigh Huggins (@JennaLeigh44) March 23, 2015
It was an exciting game between two great teams and emotions were out of line. I was wrong to say those things and I am sorry.
— Jenna Leigh Huggins (@JennaLeigh44) March 23, 2015
I also want to apologize to WVU. Mountaineers are better than that, and I have learned a valuable lesson.
— Jenna Leigh Huggins (@JennaLeigh44) March 23, 2015
Coach Huggins’s other daughter, Jacqueline, had also appeared to have posted these tweets Sunday night: “NO MEANS NO DEZ!” and “Hey #Maryland yell “airball” all you want at Wan, because at the end of the day…. Dez is still a [expletive] RAPIST.”
That Twitter account, @JacqueHuggins, has been taken private, and those tweets appear to have been deleted. At this point, she is not known to have made any form of apology.
Wells was expelled from Xavier in 2012 following an accusation of sexual assault. A grand jury declined to bring charges in the case, and Wells later came to a settlement in a lawsuit he brought against Xavier