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 total 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 heart of the sport’s greatest controversy.
With Kansas main by two halfway by way of the second half, Dickinson obtained twisted up with Maliq Brown with each gamers falling to the ground. Brown was known 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 approach all the way down to the ground. The refs reviewed it and decided that Dickinson dedicated to flagrant-two foul, which earns an immediate ejection. Watch the play right here:
Dickinson had 11 factors and 6 rebounds on the time of the ejection.
Dickinson has a fame for borderline soiled performs, and it seems like his fame was a part of the rationale for the flagrant-two name. The refs decided Dickinson’s kick was intentional. It was exhausting 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.
