A heated rivalry match between Arizona and Arizona State became ugly on Saturday. The Wildcats won the 81-72 victory on the Sun Devils home at home, but not before the match took many dramatic turns.
The officials sent four techniques throughout the match, especially in the ASU head coach, Bobby Hurley halfway, in the first half. Hurley was ready for protesting against a fault called to the caretaker of Sun Devils Adam Miller; The technique encouraged Hurley to tear her frustration tie.
Later in the first half, the goalkeeper of Arizona Jaden Bradley received a technique after looking at the ASU bench. Bradley had made a lay-up that had equaled the match at 23 with four minutes to play in half.
Then, in the last minute of the match, the goalkeeper of the Star Caleb Love Wildcats was evaluated technical and ejected after entering a skirmish with BJ Freeman of the Asu. After examination, the manager also gave Freeman a technology for the love of the head while the two exchanged words, and also expelled it.
At the end of the game, Hurley called her players out of the field to jump the handshake line, apparently fed up with the drama. Sun Devils coach sent the players to the bench in the locker room with 30 seconds to play; He and the players on the field left the moment when the match was over.
Bobby Hurley and Tommy Lloyd agreed to jump the handshake after things became Chippy towards the end of the match. pic.twitter.com/yaxribulxp
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Hurley said he had brought his team to defuse it to defuse things, saying that some of the Wildcats players were painful winners.
“It was an implacable and constant chatter of some Arizona players who were not properly monitored. Of course, they will be satisfied to win, but it was done without class, in my opinion,” said Hurley.
Bobby Hurley said that Arizona players were classless in their gossip in front of Freeman’s love head, leading to his decision not to shake hands to try to avoid climbing. pic.twitter.com/63sqwxexf6
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Asked about the end of the game dust, Hurley had a few words of choice for the stars of Arizona, saying of love: “I receive a vote for all the conferences, and I can get you No vote. “
No more Bobby Hurley, with a separation stroke for Caleb Love:
“I receive a vote for Big 12 All-Conference, and I can tell you who does not get my vote”pic.twitter.com/afc6r19thr
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Aside from the ejections, Love and Freeman led their respective teams in points: Love finished with 27 points, six rebounds and seven assists, while Freeman ended up with 19 points, three rebounds and three assists. Bradley added 14 points for the Wildcats, and Miller put 16 for the Sun Devils.
The rivals meet again on March 4, this time on the Arizona campus.
