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A SDSU Player Somehow Got Called For a Foul After Having His Face Smooshed into the Court

This was a terrible call.

Andy Nesbitt

A SDSU Player Somehow Got Called For a Foul After Having His Face Smooshed into the Court
A SDSU Player Somehow Got Called For a Foul After Having His Face Smooshed into the Court /

You would think if someone landed on you in a basketball game and smooshed your face into the court that the refs wouldn’t punish you for having your face smooshed into the court, right? 

Well, apparently you’d be wrong because that’s exactly what happened to San Diego State’s Matt Bradley during Friday night’s Sweet 16 battle with Alabama. 

Bradley was diving for a loose ball when he was called for the most painful, and mind-boggling, foul of the men’s NCAA tournament. It was such a bad whistle that his coach quickly got a technical foul for yelling at the refs about how bad of a call it was. 

Look at this: 

Ouuuuuuuuuuch. 

There’s no way in the world Bradley should have been called for a foul there. Be better, refs. 

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Andy Nesbitt
ANDY NESBITT

Andy Nesbitt is the assistant managing editor of audience engagement at Sports Illustrated. He works closely with the Breaking and Trending News team to shape SI’s daily coverage across all sports. A 20-year veteran of the sports media business, he has worked for Fox Sports, For the Win, The Boston Globe and NBC Sports, having joined SI in February 2023. Nesbitt is a golf fanatic who desperately wants to see the Super Bowl played on a Saturday night.

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