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Irate Michigan Coach Juwan Howard Hits Wisconsin Assistant After Badgers Win
STEVE MEGARGEE | The Associated Press 안전놀이터

MADISON, Wis. - Angry about a late break, Michigan mentor Juwan Howard started contending in the postgame handshake line.

Minutes after the fact, he hit a Wisconsin colleague in the head, and pandemonium followed.

The Wolverines' powerlessness to support their NCAA Tournament accreditations was not worth fretting over after a 77-63 misfortune Sunday at No. 15 Wisconsin. Their lead trainer could be confronting significant discipline.

Howard hit Wisconsin colleague Joe Krabbenhoft in the wake of jawing with Wisconsin mentor Greg Gard during the handshake line. The Big Ten said it intended to "make a quick and suitable disciplinary move when it finishes its audit."

During his postgame news gathering, Howard said he tried to avoid Wisconsin requiring a break with 15 seconds left and the Badgers driving by 15.

"I thought it was excessive right now, particularly being an enormous lead," Howard said.

Gard said he called the break since his stores were in the game and just had four seconds to get the ball past midcourt. A break allows them 10 seconds.

"I was not going to set them ready, where the ball had as of now gotten taken outside the field of play, to need to break a press in four seconds," Gard said.

After the game, Howard pointed a finger at Gard while griping about the late move. Later on, Howard came to through a group to get to Krabbenhoft - replays showed Howard no longer had a shut clench hand and had his hand open when he struck Krabbenhoft on the left half of his head.

Players from each side engaged in the conflict, and video seemed to show Michigan's Moussa Diabate and Wisconsin's Jahcobi Neath tossing punches.

For said he responded after somebody from Wisconsin set hands on him. He said that "by then, I felt the time had come to safeguard myself."

Video showed Gard had his hands contacting Howard's arm or wrist region while attempting to clarify why he called the break.

"Somebody contacted me, and I think it was very inappropriate, for them to contact me, as we were expressing and speaking with each other," Howard said. "That heightened it."

Wisconsin athletic chief Chris McIntosh said he previously had reached Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren about the circumstance, adding that Wisconsin had staff individuals who were "impacted and harmed."