Kansas heart Hunter Dickinson did his finest Draymond Inexperienced impression in Tuesday’s 75-72 win over Duke.
The Kansas heart kicked Duke ahead Maliq Brown as the 2 lay on the bottom battling for a rebound in a sport the Jayhawks led 57-55 on the time.
Dickinson went over Brown’s again whereas making an attempt to seize a rebound on his personal brief miss. As Brown aggressively boxed out, each gamers fell to the ground intertwined.
Dickinson tumbled and threw a again heel to the face of Brown, which turned the aggressive play right into a chippy one as gamers wanted to be separated.
After assessment, the Jayhawks’ 24-year-old main scorer and rebounder was issued a Flagrant 2 and ejected from the sport.
“I didn’t think at the moment and nor now do I feel it a warranted a level-2,” Kansas coach Invoice Self stated after the sport. “In my opinion, it’s probably a coin flip whether it’s a level-1 or a level-2.”
Dickinson is now in his fifth school yr and his second at Kansas after beginning his profession with Michigan. Accusations of being a grimy participant have adopted him for many of his profession.
“I saw on the screen that he kicked him in his face, so I think that warrants a flagrant-2,” Duke coach Jon Scheyer stated. “I haven’t had a good look or anything more, but that to me was really an easy one.”
Dickinson entered Tuesday’s sport averaging 17 factors and 10 rebounds per sport.
The 7-foot-2, 265-pound heart is an important piece of the top-ranked Jayhawks, who failed to succeed in the Candy 16 in back-to-back seasons after successful the 2022 nationwide title.
Dickinson has been productive his total school profession, averaging at the least 14 factors per sport in every of his 5 years.
He had 11 factors and 6 rebounds earlier than departing Tuesday’s contest.
Flory Bidunga changed Dickinson and completed with six factors and eight rebounds.
“Obviously, it’s a bummer that an All-American like Hunter had to go out,” Kansas ahead KJ Adams stated, per the AP. “But it makes me happy that Flo got a chance to show the world what he can do. It’s amazing what he did out there, especially a freshman coming in in that big environment, a huge game. He did really good.”
After his departure, the lead bounced backwards and forwards with Kansas finally holding on when Duke freshman Kon Knueppel rimmed out a financial institution shot 3-pointer on the buzzer.
Kansas will subsequent meet with Furman on Saturday within the early season Las Vegas match.
