GREEN BAY, Wis. \u2014 Green Bay coach Doug Gottlieb received a one-game suspension from the Horizon League on Wednesday for comments he made while criticizing officials after a 75-72 loss to Milwaukee last Sunday.<\/p>\n
Gottlieb slammed the table at one point and used an expletive in his postgame news conference while complaining about what he perceived as inconsistency in the officiating. Video of his news conference garnered attention on social media.<\/p>\n
\u201cGottlieb\u2019s postgame comments do not reflect the League\u2019s values or sportsmanship expectations,\u201d the Horizon League said in a statement announcing the suspension. \u201cThe Horizon League considers this matter closed and will have no further comment.\u201d<\/p>\n
The suspension will take effect for Friday when Green Bay (15-13, 10-7) visits Oakland (14-13, 10-6).<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d like to apologize to the Horizon League and the officials for my disparaging comments following Sunday\u2019s game,\u201d Gottlieb said Wednesday in a statement. \u201cI understand and appreciate how difficult their job is, and respect what they do for the sport of basketball. I will be better moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n
Green Bay was trailing 73-72 in the closing seconds when Milwaukee\u2019s Stevie Elam stole the ball from Preston Ruedinger, who was driving to the basket. Elam then made two free throws with 1 second left.<\/p>\n
On Milwaukee\u2019s previous possession, Amar Augillard had driven to the basket, got a foul call and made two free throws to put the Panthers ahead. Green Bay believed a foul should have been called on Ruedinger\u2019s drive as well.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s the exact same play as the other end \u2014 could not be more similar,\u201d Gottlieb said after the game. \u201cAnd yet, every time they drove, it was a foul. And every time we did, it was mixed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Milwaukee went 30 of 37 on free-throw attempts, while Green Bay was 14 of 18. There were 23 fouls called on Green Bay and 18 on Milwaukee.<\/p>\n
Gottlieb also wondered why he received a technical foul at one point in the game. Gottlieb said he didn\u2019t curse, wasn\u2019t demonstrative and hadn\u2019t left his box before the technical was called.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was nothing, nothing that should have been called a technical foul,\u201d Gottlieb said. \u201cI know when I\u2019ve earned one. I did not earn one.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GREEN BAY, Wis. \u2014 Green Bay coach Doug Gottlieb received a one-game suspension from the Horizon League on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,319,217,231,772,1544,2148],"class_list":{"0":"post-610218","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-college","10":"tag-college-basketball","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-basketball","13":"tag-ncaab","14":"tag-wires-bot"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116093316472466889","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610218","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=610218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}