Really Ugly Ending to WAC Championship Game


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Posted by UCLA78 on March 17, 2024 at 02:26:41

The game was played between #1 seed Grand Canyon and #3 UT Arlington. With 6.7 seconds left and Grand Canyon holding a 10-point lead, , a GCU player gathered a defensive rebound and threw a baseball pass to one of his teammates who had released and headed to the GCU end of the floor. He caught the ball with 4.8 seconds left, and instead of just dribbling it out, he did a really classless thing (that young people sometimes do without thinking) by taking to the hoop for a windmill dunk with 2.9 seconds left.

Well, a couple of UT Arlington players took exception to what the GCU player did. One of them altered course and slammed his shoulder into the GCU player, and about 1 second later another Arlington player threw the ball with all his strength, striking the GCU player.

So the guy who did the shoulder block, a move worthy of a top-notch linebacker, got a Flagrant 2 ejection. The Arlington player who threw the ball and hit the GCU player got a dead-ball Flagrant 2 and was also ejected. One GCU player was ejected for leaving the bench, though to be honest, he strayed a whole 1-2 feet onto the court, and was a good 20 feet away from what could have -- but didn't -- become an all-out scuffle.

Some really bad decisions in the heat of the moment by players on both teams.



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