Alabama Ends Basketball Game With Three Players After Ejections, Injuries
Posted on 11/25/2017 4:58:37 PM PST by BeadCounter
rules there may be penalty for pulling the team off the floor. No penalty to continue with fewer players.
In Basketball you forfeit at the start of the game. You can pull your team but the conference may have penalty for doing so. May be penalty free to continue.
When I was 17 I played in a weekend YMCA basketball league and once we had to play a game with just 4 players because we had players who were going to be out of town. We were winning at halftime but ran out of gas in 4th quarter. It was the one time in my life I lead a team in scoring.
I played in a men’s amateur hockey league in my younger days. During my last season we had a few injured players and several guys traveling for work. We played our last game of the season with only 7 skaters plus our goalie. I played right wing for the entire first period just to let our two extra players rotate through the other four positions. I had to sit for the first ten minutes of the second period because I was completely out of gas ... and oil, transmission fluid, coolant, brake fluid, and everything else I can think of. LOL. I’ve never been so exhausted in my life.
Yup. Manhandled by Auburn.
Alabama needs a better offense....isn't this the same offence that lost to Clemson last year?
Auburn has beat two number one teams in a row, #1 Georgia last week and then #1 Alabama today. Toomers Corner must be rocking tonight.
The difference last year was that the defense scored a lot of points that we didn't get this year.
Actually you can finish a game without a full team on the floor. I played in a game (college) where we had to finish with 4 because so many people fouled out. Refs were brutal that night ;)
When I playd high school basketball here in Southern California, and this is back in the 1970s, if injuries and or fouls reduced you to less than five players you did not end the game. You kept on playing. I do believe in the NBA if you only have four players left the game is over and the other team wins.
” Toomers Corner must be rocking tonight. “
I was watching the Toomer’s Corner webcam when Auburn won the game.
It was a madhouse of people within a matter of minutes.
Big clean-up job on Toomer’s Corner.
My Gators will pummel the Dukies tomorrow.
Can you imagine the mess if it were going to rain tonight?
“The entire bench came on the court and starting a fight.”
I re-watched the entire altercation.
1. No punches were thrown at any time by either team, as best as I could see.
2. No Alabama player from the bench approached or to the best of my view touched any Minnesota player.
3. Only 3 Alabama players exhibited any hostile or aggressive motion from the bench. Those 3 should have been ejected. The others were trying to drag teammates back to the bench area.
4. I thought Bama and Minn players who squared off underneath should have been ejected. They started it, they should have paid.
Based on comments from the commentators, and from what I saw last night in the previous games, the tournament organizers did a really poor job. They had to eject at least one fan in the stands.
I am an Alabama fan, so I recognize I am biased. The Bama players shouldn’t have left the bench, but I wouldn’t have ejected all of them, only the 3 who came out first. The rest were pulling players back to the bench.
I’ve always liked Avery Johnson, back when he coached for the Mavs, glad to see he’s doing a good job there.
I had to laugh when I heard about this incident.
At least our Basketball team played with some life, unlike our football team.
MN player had more to do starting the fight.
They stepped on the court right in front of the official. . No fists thrown.
Here is a link to another video. MN player started it and should have been ejected.
http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2017/11/alabama_rallies_but_comes_up_s.html#incart_2box_sports
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