Texas A&M's Buzz Williams should have been whistled for bizarre moment in Aggies win over the Tennessee Vols
The Texas A&M Aggies were clearly the better team on Saturday night against the Tennessee Volunteers. Let's go ahead and get that out of the way right now. The Aggies controlled the game from the start, ultimately rolling to an 85-69 win over the Vols in College Station. Texas A&M's Wade Taylor IV's hot shooting […]
The Texas A&M Aggies were clearly the better team on Saturday night against the Tennessee Volunteers. Let's go ahead and get that out of the way right now.
The Aggies controlled the game from the start, ultimately rolling to an 85-69 win over the Vols in College Station. Texas A&M's Wade Taylor IV's hot shooting – he sank five of his first seven three-point attempts in the first half – pushed the Aggies in front by double digits early in the first half, and A&M never looked back.
However, there was one moment where the Aggies caught a break from what clearly should have been a technical foul on their head coach Buzz Williams.
After A&M's Jace Carter knocked down a three to push the Aggies' lead to 69-54 with just 6:07 left in the game, Williams lost his mind trying to call timeout and ran all the way to the midcourt logo while hopping around like a madman.
It goes without saying that running onto the floor with the game in progress and the clock running constitutes a technical foul. That should need no explanation. Baylor's Scott Drew was actually ejected earlier this year for going outside of the designated coaches box twice.
Instead, Williams reportedly only received a bench warning instead for his antics, which were completely unnecessary given the score and the circumstances.
Again, this wasn't something that in any way affected who would have come out on top on Saturday. The Aggies deserved to win and would have won either way.
However, it does beg the question that if there are rules in place for this sort of thing, and the violation is completely obvious: why wasn't a technical foul given? Basketball officiating is already questionable far too often. Adding a warning for what was a clear violation of the rules makes the already seemingly arbitrary nature of the officials' whistles even more so.
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