BYU players hear explicit chant from Arizona fans after controversial end to men's basketball game

The BYU Cougars topped the Arizona Wildcats connected Saturday nighttime successful a chaotic crippled that featured a arguable call, an incidental betwixt players and an explicit chant from the assemblage successful Tucson.

The Cougars won the crippled 96-95. 

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The Wildcats had the shot with nether 12 seconds to play. Caleb Love was searching for immoderate heroics and was fouled arsenic helium made a shot. But alternatively of receiving the anticipation of completing a three-point play, Love was fixed only 2 escaped throws. He deed them some and enactment Arizona up 95-94 with a fewer seconds to play.

BYU moved the shot up the level quickly. Cougars prima Richie Saunders drove the lane and tried to interval 1 toward the basket. He fell trying and a precocious whistle was heard. Arizona’s Trey Townsend was called for a foul. Saunders made some escaped throws and BYU won the game.

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Players had to beryllium separated arsenic they were successful the handshake enactment aft the game. Furthermore, fans of the No. 19-ranked Wildcats were heard changing "f--- the Mormons" arsenic BYU near the floor.

Arizona caput manager Tommy Lloyd disagreed with the last-second foul call.

"It’s a atrocious call. I mean like, whatever. What americium I going to say? You hatred for a crippled to beryllium decided by that," Lloyd said, via Sports Illustrated. "(Townsend) played bully defense. The guy’s pivoting, pivoting, pivoting, throws his enarthrosis into him, throws up a changeable and falls down. It’s a foul with 2 seconds to go. I mean listen, it’s the Big 12. That’s what I’m told. And the feline who called it is 1 of the champion refs. So we’ve got to unrecorded with it."

Arizona officials besides issued an apology for the fans’ chant.

"Following tonight’s men’s hoops game, it was brought to our attraction that an unacceptable chant occurred," diversion manager Desireé Reed-Francois said successful a statement.

"On behalf of the University of Arizona Athletic Department, we apologize to BYU, their student-athletes, coaches and fans. The chant is not reflective of who we are and should not person happened."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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