Watch: Alabama basketball finishes with just three players after entire bench ejected

The Sporting News ^ | November 25, 2017 | Thomas Lott Omnisport

[BeadCounter]

As crazy as it may have been how Alabama's football team was manhandled by Auburn, it's not nearly as crazy as what the Crimson Tide basketball team was forced to do.

The entire Tide bench got ejected while they had one player foul out and another get hurt, so they played three-on-five basketball in the second half of Saturday's 89-84 loss to Minnesota.

[BeadCounter]

Still reading about this. You don't hear about this happening often. I'm surprised the margin of victory was only 5 points. I believe the Alabama team was down to three halfway in the second half.

[no-to-illegals]

Surprising play was allowed to continue !?!

[Thibodeaux]

why was the team ejected?

[Gideon7]

Why did the whole bench get ejected?

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Instead of running the layup drill, the greedy Gopher players tried to pad their stats by shooting threes.

Yes, I’m a Gopher fan.

[dfwgator]

Sounds like something straight out of the movie, “Hoosiers.”

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

The entire bench came on the court and starting a fight. The article is short on facts. I guess you have to watch the video.

[StormEye]

Five against three is ridiculous.
If they couldn't field a full team on the floor
that's a forfeit. Even in high school sports where
I live. If the school can't come up with a full team
they forfeit the game.

[Alberta's Child]

One of the top high school soccer programs in my state won a state championship game back in the early 1980s despite playing the entire second half down two players for red cards. That’s hard enough to do in a soccer game. I couldn’t imagine playing 3-on-5 in a basketball game!

[Governor Dinwiddie]

But they were good boys. Everybody loved them.

[RckyRaCoCo]

why was the team ejected?

[Karl Spooner]

Perfectly legal. Rule #3. Even one player is enough in some cases.

https://youtu.be/IBIAP0IYL0k

[freedumb2003]

>>Sounds like something straight out of the movie, “Hoosiers.”<<

That was when Popeye Doyle benched the “best” payers for being drug dealers, right?

[calenel]

Shoplifting?

[Runner4life]

Nah. You can play with one player if you want to.

[ReformedBeckite]

There was a small college, I think it was Spring Arbor University that didn't have very many players to start to start a game with, probably an away game.
Anyway their was one game where they slowly lost their players, I don't know how, my guess they had to many fouls and one by one they got ejected or whatever.
Eventually they got down to one player who all he could do was throw the ball at a opposing team player and hoped the ball bounced off of him and bounced back to him, hey what else can you do when your on the side lines and the referee hands you the ball and you have to do something with it.
Anyway they lost the game , I think it was in overtime, either way they did give it their best shot.

[BobL]

Perhaps next time they’ll STAND for the National Anthem.

[Hieronymus]

In fantasy hockey, as I understand it, goon points are great things. I don’t play, but my inlaws do.

[diogenes ghost]

I went to tiny HS in Mich. In '59 I was a Soph, on varsity, we had NO seniors on team.

Playing Weidman, another tiny school, we had only 6 at start of game, 4 of us fouled out (I was last to foul out, at end of 3rd qtr, score tied then). Played entire 4th qtr 5 on 2, lost game by 3. Won rematch later in year, our only win of season.

One of our cheerleaders' sister was married, living with her Army hubby in Japan. She sent back a newspaper clipping, from Japanese newspaper with photo showing both coaches during a timeout....their coach with 5 guys looking at him and ours with two. And it seems journalism hasn't changed much in 58 years...the caption reversed the players' names.

'Twas the only time I ever fouled out.

[thinden]

The important question is: did they stand during the National anthem