LOS ANGELES — UCLA’s Sebastian Mack received a flagrant-2 foul and was ejected against Utah on Sunday.
The freshman guard raised his arm as Utah’s Branden Carlson was setting a screen near mid-court in the first half.
Carlson stayed down on the court holding his throat with a trainer checking on him until walking off to the locker room.
UCLA coach Mick Cronin said after the game that he had not seen a replay of the incident, but it was among the many “dumb fouls” the Bruins committed in a 70-69 loss that snapped a six-game winning streak.
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“The reason we were winning was we stopped doing dumb stuff — dumb fouls, in particular, and they were back tonight,” Cronin said, according to ESPN.com.
After a video review, the referees assessed the flagrant foul on Mack and he headed to the locker room. He had four points on 2-of-3 shooting, with UCLA leading 16-12 at the time.
Carlson returned to the game and went on to score the game-winning putback with 0.2 seconds left on the clock in the back-and-forth Pac 12 matchup.