Kansas is a big man Hunter Dickinson He grabbed an offensive rebound and put the ball to his body with both arms, with no intention of letting TCU take it from him.
Coach Bill Self wasn’t happy with how that play ended for his preseason AP All-America center, who never gives up Trazarin White He tried to clear the ball away – even after the officials blew the final whistle for the second half The 12th-place Jayhawks win 74-61 at TCU on Wednesday night.
“I thought it was stupid for our guy to hold on to the ball like that,” Self said.
The 7-foot-2 Dickinson and 6-6 White remained tangled even as they stumbled out of bounds when whistles sounded to stop the action. TCU Guard Vasyan Alit And a student Malik Diallo I also reached for the ball. Once Dickinson finally gave up the ball, officials reviewed the play and issued technical fouls to him and White.
“That was a stupid play,” Self said. “But what made it a stupid play as much as anything else… when the whistle blows, it stops. And I’m sure they blew the whistle a few times.” “It cost us possession, so yeah, I wasn’t happy to see that at all.”
The Horned Frogs had the ball on the tying run and White responded with an alley-oop shot on a pass from Noah Reynolds With 12:44 remaining to put them up 48-47. That was the last time they led the game.
Dickinson, who finished with a team-high 16 points and nine rebounds, was not one of the players Kansas brought in for the postgame interview.
TCU coach Jimmy Dixon, who was on the other end of the field as the players tangled, had a very different reaction to the play than Self.
“It didn’t matter, I guess,” said Dixon, who didn’t think there was anything dirty or sinister about the play.
“I don’t even know why there was a T, but I think the officials told them to stop,” he said. “They did not do what officials asked them to do.”
Associated Press report.
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