SEC commissioner Greg Sankey on Wednesday issued Alabama males’s basketball coach Nate Oats a public reprimand for making bodily contact with a Missouri participant in the course of the Crimson Tide’ 93-75 victory Tuesday. Sankey, in an announcement launched by the convention, referred to as the contact “unacceptable” and a violation of the sportsmanship expectations for the league.
“Nate Oats’ actions have been unacceptable and violated the expectations for conduct and sportsmanship as established by the membership of the Southeastern Convention,” Sankey stated within the assertion. “Certainly not ought to a coach make intentional contact with a student-athlete on an opposing staff.”
Oats pushed Mizzou’s Aidan Shaw again in the direction of the Missouri bench in a tense change after Shaw and Alabama’s Aaron Estrada acquired right into a heated confrontation.
Video replay of the incident exhibits Oats caught his arm into Shaw’s chest and prolonged his forearm earlier than pointing Shaw to his personal bench in an obvious try and diffuse the state of affairs. The state of affairs wasn’t well-received by Shaw and his teammates who have been round him, however the two sides have been separated and the sport continued.
After the sport, Oats stated he apologized to each Missouri coach Dennis Gates and to Shaw for his actions.
“I’ve all of the respect on the planet for the job Gates has completed as an assistant and head coach,” Oats stated. “[I mean] no disrespect to him or his program. I apologized to each Coach Gates and Aidan Shaw. Aidan looks as if an important child. It is an unlucky state of affairs, however I apologized to each of them.”
Gates in his personal postgame acknowledged that Oats apologized however questioned why, with the contact being made proper in entrance of two officers, Oats wasn’t assessed a technical foul.
