China vs US Georgetown Hoyas Baskeball Team Brawl, Raw Footage of Fight, Biden Visit, Crowd Reaction

Players from American Georgetown University men's basketball team and China's Bayi men's basketball team fight during a basketball game at the Beijing Olympic Basketball Arena on Thursday, Aug. 18, 2011.

Video obtained by the website SportsGrid.com shows a bench-clearing brawl at an exhibition basketball game in Beijing between Georgetown University and China's Bayi Rockets. The game was called with about nine and a half minutes remaining. (Aug. 18)
BEIJING — A wild brawl broke out between the Georgetown University Hoyas and a Chinese men's basketball team Thursday night, putting an immediate end to a supposed goodwill game that coincided with U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden's visit to the country.
Georgetown brawl in China a sad episode‎
The benches cleared and fights erupted all over the court with about nine-and-a-half minutes left in the fourth quarter. The rest of the exhibition between Georgetown and the Bayi Rockets was called off.
Georgetown brawl in China a sad episode‎

Georgetown China Fight Video‎
Biden did not attend the game. On Wednesday, he watched the Hoyas beat the Shanxi Zhongyu Brave Dragons 98-81.
Watch: Georgetown's China Visit Erupts in Basketball Court Brawl‎
The Washington Post reported Georgetown and Bayi players tackled and threw punches at each another. Chairs and water bottles were tossed as the Hoyas headed to the locker room with the score 64-all in a testy, foul-plagued matchup.

"Tonight, two great teams played a very competitive game that unfortunately ended after heated exchanges with both teams,"

Georgetown coach John Thompson III said in a statement. "We sincerely regret that this situation occurred."

Georgetown and the Rockets are scheduled to play again Sunday night in Shanghai.

The melee was the latest instance of on-court fighting by China, whose players have been fined tens of thousands of dollars by the world and Asian federations for scrapping with opponents.

Georgetown is in China on a 10-day trip which has been cited by the U.S. State Department as an example of sports diplomacy that strengthens ties between the two countries. The Hoyas were briefed by the State Department ahead of their departure on what to expect during its trip to Beijing and Shanghai, according to news releases on the university's website.

"We remain grateful for the opportunity our student-athletes are having to engage in a sport they love here in China, while strengthening their understanding of a nation we respect and admire at Georgetown University," Thompson III said.

In Washington, State Department spokesman Mark Toner called it an "unfortunate" incident.

"We look to these types of exchanges to promote good sportsmanship and strengthen our people-to-people contact with China," he said.

On Thursday, Biden met with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, who is expected to take over as Communist Party chief next year.

After his China trip, Biden will go to Mongolia on Monday, then travel later in the day Japan.

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[manh88]

Actually, the chinese team can't fight. The Bayi are a professional ARMY team whose members are recruited from the army -- the PLA. These are men in their 30's TRAINED to fight and kill. Yet, they had to fight SEVERAL Bayi against ONE GT player -- a college kid -- and still they NEEDED chairs. What a bunch of losers.

[motherhamster11]

Most of these problems we face nowadays are because we are ignorant of each others culture. for example, i am middle eastern, living in new york so i get many racist comments sometimes. People automatically assume i am a terorist, just because of my race. the same can be seen with Chinese and americans. Do you know even one lick of Chinese culture and history? those "fucking chinks" you were talking about might have a couple thousand years of being different from westerners, ts not their fault

[motherhamster11]

I bet if many of you virgins would just get the fuck off your computers and actually do something to benefit the American cause and economy, you wouldn't be crying about how horrible your lives are thanks to china. Get a life, for fuck's sake.

[wally7227]

@Relmal fuck you! why don't you pick a fight with Henry Sims? he will drop your racist ass in a second.

[wally7227]

@Relmal you are a fucking racist piece of shit. i hope you die. by nuke. from africa

[eminemlova1234]

Fuck Chinese bitchs

[Relmal]

China should NUKE AFRICA.Rid the earth of a scourging parasitic,lazy good for nothing race.

[Relmal]

Fucking good for nothing niggers

[JDMFiyah]

@gtltexas18 whiney? lol damn thats why in the nba they have so many black cry babies but let me stop myself here cause i dont want to be a racist like you

[DjWade3734]

@stopchineseimitation EXACTLY. China copies/steals from the U.S' military, education, economic, energy, commerical, and etc like crazy. They steal our ideas, secrets, and etc. Notice how you find so many knock off American products there? Hahaha the Chinese are imitators, not innovators. They have no creativity cells so they have to steal/copy from other countries lol. Pathetic.

[DjWade3734]

I hate the Chinese government. These pussie ass Chinese players potray exactly how the Chinese government is. "We think we're better than Americans because we have bigger numbers but yet, we have to beat up them up by going 3 vs. 1 (college kid). China acts big because they're rich and have numbers, but they're not. They're just a bunch of pussies who have to beat kids up by ganging up on them with adults. LOL.