The Kansas Jayhawks and Duke Blue Devils performed a marquee early season matchup in Las Vegas to start Feast Week in males’s faculty basketball. Whereas presumptive No. 1 general NBA draft decide Cooper Flagg drew a lot of the consideration as he took on the No. 1 workforce within the polls, it was Kansas’ tremendous senior Hunter Dickinson who discovered himself on the middle of the sport’s largest controversy.
With Kansas main by two halfway via the second half, Dickinson acquired tousled with Maliq Brown with each gamers falling to the ground. Brown was referred to as for a typical foul on the ground for taking down Dickinson. What Dickinson did subsequent earned him an ejection on a flagrant-two foul.
Dickinson kicked Brown within the head on his method all the way down to the ground. The refs reviewed it and decided that Dickinson dedicated to flagrant-two foul, which earns an on the spot ejection. Watch the play right here:
Dickinson had 11 factors and 6 rebounds on the time of the ejection.
Dickinson has a status for borderline soiled performs, and it seems like his status was a part of the rationale for the flagrant-two name. The refs decided Dickinson’s kick was intentional. It was arduous to inform intent within the second throughout a bang-bang play, however the replay positive made Dickinson look responsible.
We’ll replace this story because it develops.