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dallasnews SportsDay GuideLIVE FD Luxe neighborsgo Subscribe Sign In My Account Premium Site Shopping Real Estate Jobs Autos Classifieds Obits 69° Forecast Traffic Cowboys Mavericks Stars Rangers Colleges High Schools More [image] Home> College Sports Blog SMU notes: Larry Brown takes jab at NCAA; donors buy all student tickets for 2nd round By Bill Nichols brnichols@dallasn ews.com 12:22 am on March 20, 2014| Permalink SMU Mustangs Head Coach Larry Brown waives to the crowd after beating the UC Irvine Anteaters in the second half of NIT First Round Men's Basketball action at Moody Coliseum in University Park, Texas on Wednesday, March 19, 2014. (Brad Loper/The Dallas Morning News) SMU’s Larry Brown has seen a lot coaching basketball for 50 years, but he never witnessed what happened during the Mustangs’ 68-54 win over UC Irvine on Wednesday night at Moody Coliseum. Two second-half fouls called on UC Irvine were reversed after the fact. The first resulted in SMU having two points subtracted. Brown, whose team is still stinging from being snubbed by the NCAA Tournament, said: “I thought one of the committee members of the NCAA decided to do that.” SMU’s Nic Moore made two free throws to give the Mustangs a 53-42 lead with 8:16 left. But after a dead ball in Cal Irvine’s end, officials conferred and ruled that Moore should not have taken the shots because they were not in the bonus. So the points were subtracted, then UC Irvine inbounded and scored to make it 51-42. Officials explained to a pool reporter: “At the time we were told we were in the bonus, in the 1-1, when in fact we were not. The personal foul was the sixth foul. Therefore the ball should have been taken out of bounds. Such errors must be recognized and corrected by an official during the first dead ball after the clock had been started. We were in the correctable error timeframe, and by rule, we removed the unmerited free throws.” One problem: SMU should have had the ball if not awarded foul shots. “Points taken off I can see,” Brown said. “But why would we lose the ball? In this day and age, fouls are not reverse-able.” *** SMU students have been camping out for free tickets, but since tournament tickets cannot be given away, donors purchased 750 tickets — to fill the entire student section on the floor — for Monday’s game against LSU. MORE MUSTANGS CONTENT 5 Thoughts: Tallest player in college basketball can’t keep SMU from notching first postseason win since 2011 Rapid Reaction: SMU uses second half surge to avoid NIT first round upset Rick Hart, SMU athletic director, defends the Mustangs’ non-conference basketball schedule Kansas coach Bill Self: ‘can’t believe’ SMU didn’t get into tournament; former boss Larry Brown was confident team would get in Larry Brown doesn’t want to talk about NCAA snub, wants team to prove in NIT ‘that we’re man enough to understand’ Shop here! Powered by Fathead Baylor Bears BU Logo $89.99 Fathead TCU Horned Frogs Chrome Helmet $89.99 This entry was posted in American Athletic Conference, SMU Mustangs, SMUHoopsand tagged Larry Brown, National Invitation Tournamentby Bill Nichols. Bookmark the permalink. CommentsTo post a comment, log into your chosen social network and then add your comment below. 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