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ESPN\u2019s Seth Greenberg lambasted Notre Dame<\/a> head coach Micah Shrewsberry<\/a> for his actions during Friday night\u2019s game between Notre Dame and Cal<\/a>. Following the Irish\u2019s 72-71 loss, Shrewsberry charged at officials leaving the court while being held back by his staff.<\/p>\n

Shrewsberry was fired up about a controversial foul call which gave Cal\u2018s Dai Dai Ames<\/a> a four-point play with five seconds left, which propelled the Golden Bears ahead by one. As soon as Micah\u2019s son, Braeden<\/a>, missed a three-pointer at the buzzer, Shrewsberry made a run at the referees. <\/p>\n

\u201cMicah Shrewsberry\u2018s a good human being, a terrific basketball coach, and a good leader,\u201d Greenberg said during Saturday\u2019s game between LSU<\/a> and Texas A&M<\/a>. \u201cHaving said that, his behavior (was) unacceptable, and if that happened during the course of a game, he would have been thrown out of the game. If it happens after the game, in my opinion \u2014 and look, I had many out-of-body experiences and I\u2019ve done a lot of things that I regret now, looking back, you know, through that tunnel.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I am shocked that the league didn\u2019t give him a one-game suspension, because you have to send a message. Because, if not, the next time this same type of incident happens, you\u2019re not gonna be able to suspend that guy either. So you\u2019ve got to set a precedent. The precedent that the league has set is you behave this way, we\u2019re going to reprimand you. We are not going to give you a suspension, which, I think, is going to be tough for the officials.\u201d<\/p>\n

Micah Shrewsberry issues public apology in fallout of situation<\/p>\n

Saturday morning, the Atlantic Coast Conference issued its punishment to Shrewsberry. Instead of handing down a suspension of any kind, however, it demanded a public apology from the Notre Dame head coach.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Atlantic Coast Conference has issued a public reprimand of Notre Dame men\u2019s basketball head coach Micah Shrewsberry for violating the ACC Sportsmanship Policy following Notre Dame\u2019s game against California on Friday, January 2,\u201d the conference wrote in a statement<\/a>.
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\u201cShrewsberry aggressively confronted a member of the officiating crew following the game. The unsportsmanlike behavior that was displayed is unacceptable\u00a0and tarnishes the on-court play between these institutions. The ACC considers this matter closed and will have no further comment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shrewsberry\u2019s statement was released soon after. Instead of appealing a suspension, he will now begin preparing his team for next Saturday\u2019s game against Clemson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to apologize for what took place immediately after the Cal game last night,\u201d\u00a0the statement<\/a>\u00a0read. \u201cMy actions were inappropriate and not symbolic of the leader I strive to be and what Notre Dame expects of its coaches and educators. I will learn from this lack of judgement and be better in the future. I want to apologize to our team, our University and its leaders, to Coach (Mark) Madsen<\/a> and his team, and to the ACC, as my actions were unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ESPN\u2019s Seth Greenberg lambasted Notre Dame head coach Micah Shrewsberry for his actions during Friday night\u2019s game between…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,33800,30937],"class_list":{"0":"post-515162","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-micah-shrewsberry","10":"tag-seth-greenberg"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115834446915835463","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}