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RIVERDALE, N.Y. – You just never know what you’re going to see when you walk into a MAAC gym.
In the midst of what became an improbable 18-point second-half comeback win for Manhattan against undefeated Quinnipiac, Jaspers guard Terrance Jones ripped Asim Jones down from behind as he went up for a layup.
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It was a flagrant foul. Easy call for Brian O’Connell, John Cahill and Nathan Hall. But that was only the start of it.
The facts are unclear as to who egged whom first, but somebody somewhere took exception to what somebody said or did as the teams walked back to their benches. From there, both head coaches got into a shouting match, laced with expletives. Assistant coaches and players were in the mix as well, and the officials took a long time to separate the teams.
Tom Pecora and John Gallagher were both ejected from there and had to be escorted off the court. Neither wanted to leave. Once they did, both of them gestured to their respective fanbases, enlivening an already juiced-up Friday night crowd. After Jones made two flagrant free throws to put Quinnipiac ahead by six with five minutes left, Manhattan outscored the Bobcats 18-11 to win the game.
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Associate head coaches JR Lynch and Shaun Morris downplayed the events of the scrum after the game.
“I think it would be summed up as MAAC basketball on a Friday night in league play,” Morris said. “There’s tempers that flared. I think the referees did everything they could to kind of squash it.”
“It was two teams competing,” Lynch said. “We were competing, and things like that sometimes happen.”
Morris did add that Quinnipiac may have taken extra exception to the play because star Jaden Zimmerman got hurt on a similar play last season, and it kept him out for much of the offseason recovering from hand surgery.
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“You get pulled down from behind, that can cause some uneasiness,” Morris said.
Mid-Major Madness requested a pool report from the officials, but was unable to…
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Publish date : 2026-01-04 16:39:00
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