COLUMBIA, 12/13/09 (Beat Byte) -- A poster on the Columbia Daily Tribune's bulletin board has offered a plausible defense of two Mizzou women's basketball team members accused of assaulting a 21-year-old male Mizzou cheerleader. Mizzou coach Cindy Stein suspended the two young women, Amanda Hanneman and Jessra Johnson -- the team's leading scorers."The cheerleader was drunk and...attacked a female student and pushed her to the floor," writes "mizzoudad," whose posting history on the Trib suggests he came forward just for this story. "The two basketball players came to her defense, finally hitting him to make him take his hands off the victim's throat. He called the police after the players and the victim had already gone."Though the facts remain unconfirmed, the Trib post seems detailed and adamant enough to warrant further inquiry."Those two girls were defending a friend, and they are the ones who got in trouble!" mizzoudad writes. "Would all of you prefer to have Mizzou athletes stand by while a 6 ft+ guy attacks a 5 ft 4 girl, or have them step in, against great personal cost of team suspension? Do you think Coach Stein should not have stood by her players in that situation?I hope my friends would stand up for me like those two athletes did for their friend."RELATED:
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