Kansas’ Lagerald Vick handed bogus technical foul vs Michigan State (Video)

Kansas Jayhawks guard Lagerald Vick was whistled for a technical foul for either hanging on the rim or taunting, only he did neither

The Kansas Jayhawks, for all intents and purposes, entered their Second Round matchup against the Michigan State Spartans as the far superior team. However, Tom Izzo in March is some kind of sorcerer and was giving Bill Self’s group all they could handle in the 2017 NCAA Tournament. With the game close, though, the refs blew the whistle with another ridiculously off-base call in the first weekend of March Madness.

As we all know, there are couple of things that you can’t do when dunking in college basketball. You can’t come down and taunt your opponent and, somewhat an extension of that, you also can’t hang on the rim. If you do either of those things, it’s a technical foul. The debate is not about that rule.

However, Kansas guard Lagerald Vick went up for a monster dunk in the second half and threw it down quickly. He was barely on the rim for a second (if that) before coming down and seemingly just yelling after the big play. Yet somehow the referees determined that he should be assessed a technical foul.

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Maybe I’m missing something, but you tell me if any part of this constitutes a technical foul being called:

That’s a play that you’ll see in quite literally 95 percent of college basketball games. And in 99 percent of those cases, they go down to the other end with no whistle being blow. So to call Vick for the tech there in a close game in March Madness seems absurd.

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Ultimately it didn’t matter for the Jayhawks. They pulled away from Sparty heavily to close the game and notched a substantial win to move to the Sweet 16—but that doesn’t make the call any less suspect.