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.
“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.
MN player had more to do starting the fight.
They stepped on the court right in front of the official. . No fists thrown.