Iowa basketball player Alvaro Folgueiras and Florida’s Alex Condon were both called for technical fouls on a held-ball play Sunday during an NCAA Tournament game in Tampa, Fla.
Folgueiras got tangled up with Condon on a held-ball situation. Condon threw Folgueiras to the floor, and Folgueiras made a closed fist and swung toward the ball.
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TBS announcers initially speculated that Folgueiras would be whistled for a flagrant-2 foul, which carries an automatic ejection.
After officials reviewed the video, they determined no flagrant foul was necessary. Florida coach Todd Golden was irate and screaming at the officials after the double technical was called.
The play happened with 8:34 left in the first half and Iowa leading 19-13.
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Iowa coach Ben McCollum talked about the play with a TBS sideline reporter at the next timeout:
“I don’t know, they were just going for the ball, and then everybody got all sensitive,” McCollum said. “Their people got sensitive. It’s like, you’re trying to play ball. It’s whatever. We’ll compete. We’ll fight. We’ll see what happens.”
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TBS analyst Seth Davis said this at halftime: “I talked to (rules expert) Gene Steratore, and the rule is this, if you swing your fist, even if, it looks like (Folgueiras) was trying to hit the basketball, but if you swing your fist and you try to hit the ball and you hit the person, you are gone. It did look to me like he kinda hit his wrist, hit his arm, maybe got part of the ball. Look, the refs in that situation, they don’t wanna eject somebody from an NCAA Tournament game. So I think they probably adjudicated it well.”
Davis’ fellow analysts Adam Zucker, Charles Barkley and Clark Kellogg also indicated that they felt the double-technical was an appropriate call.
This article originally appeared on Des Moines Register: Iowa’s Folgueiras, Florida’s Condon pick up double technical fouls