As the players from North Dakota State and Oral Roberts shook hands after their meeting, the atmosphere quickly turned to a general fight with coaches and players ready to come to blows. The general scrum will last almost two minutes, and everything would have started from Paul Mills, the coach of Oral Roberts. The latter criticized his opponents for having played the last possession and for having gone to dunk at the buzzer when the match was folded (77-59).
“It’s the emotions linked to the match… We saw two teams play until the end and certain things overflowed” defended North Dakota State coach Dave Richman. “I don’t want our program to be associated with that. There are situations that will be lessons for me and our group as we move forward. I will apologize to Oral Roberts and Coach Mills for any mistakes on our part. But I also asked our guys to play until the end and we played until the end tonight. “
