 And most striking of all, shortly after the Mississippi Board of Trustees of Institutions of Higher Learning by an 8–3 vote upheld Colvard's decision and just hours before the team was to leave for the tournament, Mitts – a former State cheerleader and student body president – teamed with a local judge to acquire an injunction to be served on Colvard or Coach McCarthy prohibiting the team from participating in the tournament.Colvard, McCarthy, and the university athletic and assistant athletic director then slipped out of Starkville to prevent the injunction from having effect.The next morning, the basketball players and an assistant coach – not named in the injunction – flew to Nashville to pick up three of those who left to avoid the injunction including Coach McCarthy and then toward the game site where the injunction was dissolved by the Mississippi Supreme Court shortly before the first game tipoff.