Two women’s basketball players make hoops for wrong team on a day of point-blank blunders

Players from New Mexico State and Northwestern State each scored into their own team’s basket in separate women’s basketball games on Friday. The errors briefly changed the scorelines and drew attention, but New Mexico State recovered to win while Northwestern State went on to lose.

New Mexico State’s Emma Christiano put in a lay-up at the wrong end with 20 seconds left, when her team trailed Southern Utah by one. Stacy Chovino scored the Aggies’ final two baskets, including the winning lay-up with two seconds remaining, to secure a 64-63 victory. About an hour earlier, Northwestern State’s Karma Wynn made a similar mistake in the first quarter against Arkansas; it put her side six points behind in a game Arkansas won 89-59.