Texas Tech coach Grant McCasland watched the Red Raiders’ 22 Red Red Red Red Red Victory on Houston N ° 6 on Saturday in the locker room after being expelled less than four minutes after the match.
McCasland was evaluated two technical faults for making a blatant call of 2 on JT Toppin after Toppin seemed to kick Joseph Tugler of Houston in the median section on a jump pass.
“It’s really my thought: JT Toppin is a left -handed basketball player, and we worked against the double team,” said McCasland after the match. “He turned to launch basketball with his right, but he was jumped quickly, and he tries to launch with his left.
“I don’t know. Maybe we should call Patrick Mahomes and ask him because if you are in a launch movement, and you have to change your hand and you are a left-hander, you will have to throw your body a way to tighten it to throw it with your left hand.
The officials examined the play, Toppin received a flagrant 2, explained McCasland and had to be retained while being escorted out of the field.
“I don’t know what to say else,” said McCasland. “If your judgment is that it is something that we told him to try to do something in a double team. Two things that I like at JT Toppin: one, it was really excited to play in this game, And he contributed and he finished a lot to put himself in this position.
Texas Tech Ad Kirby Hocuttt published a declaration on X, formerly Twitter, saying that he was “dismayed and disappointed by the official decision of the official to expel JT Toppin”.
“This decision, made on a part which was clearly an accident and without intention, is unacceptable,” said the press release. “Immediately after the ejection, I spoke with the commissioner (Brett) Yormark, who assured me that the situation would be addressed and that there would be responsibility.”
McCasland said that there was “no conversation why they launched me”.
The victory of Texas Tech put an end to the sequence of 33 Houston home victories. Houston had not lost his own since a defeat of January 22, 2023 against Temple.
The Big 12 victories sequence of cougars and the sequence of 13 consecutive victories were also broken.
Mahomes, a former Texas Tech, did not publicly weigh on the fault, but he was enthusiastic about victory.
Houston coach Kelvin Sampson said he was disappointed with the defeat, but “the most difficult team won the match”.
“The story of the game was Texas Tech,” said Sampson. “They were great. Let’s give them a little credit. They lose their best big, they enter this gymnasium and go to the free throw line 34 times, are 12 3 and play very well.”
Report by the Associated Press.
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