PITTSBURGH (AP) – Kansas State guard Angel Rodriguez has accepted Southern Mississippi’s apology over remarks made by its band and has moved on.

The freshman says he heard the chants of “Where’s your green card?” during the Wildcats’ 70-64 second-round victory in the NCAA tournament Thursday and that the school’s athletic director and other “personnel” came to the team hotel to apologize.

Rodriguez said he accepted the apology because he knows “that’s not how they want to represent their university.”

Rodriguez added a civics lesson, noting that Puerto Rico is a commonwealth of the United States and he doesn’t need papers.

USM president Martha Saunders issued an apology Thursday.