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PHILADELPHIA, PA — Mick Cronin won the battle against Dan Hurley over who would receive a technical foul first.
The UCLA men’s basketball coach was assessed a technical foul at the 4:41 mark of the second half of Sunday’s Men’s NCAA Tournament second round game against 2-seed UConn at Xfinity Mobile Arena. It led to Huskies forward Alex Karaban making a pair of free throws that helped UConn build its lead up against UCLA.
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Replay from the TNT broadcast showed Cronin clapping his hands in front of the official.
On the TNT broadcast, CBS Sports rules analyst Gene Steratore didn’t think it should have been elevated to a technical, and that there should have been more to it.
“From what I’m looking at here just on its own, that doesn’t look like something that would elevate to a technical foul,” Steratore said. “Now, I’m not sure if there’s been something that’s been building up previously. It doesn’t appear that he’s saying something verbally at that point. But you don’t want to speculate, right? … I think there’s something more to it than just that clap. I can’t see just the clap making this a technical foul scenario.”
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