IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) – Iowa coach Fran McCaffery walked off the court after the win and waved for his team to follow him to the locker room without shaking hands with North Dakota’s players and coaches.
It was a wild ending to an otherwise vanilla game that the Hawkeyes won 84-73 on Tuesday night.
McCaffery was irritated with what he considered a few unnecessary and chippy plays in the closing moments of a game that Iowa led by 16 points with three minutes to go.
The most prominent play happened when North Dakota’s Corey Baldwin tried for a steal and score with only three seconds left when Nicholas Baer was holding the ball to run out the clock and end the game.
“I wasn’t pleased with how the game ended and the things that happened,” McCaffery said. “I don’t think they teach that kind of stuff, but I was not having it. That’s not the way to play.”