Kentucky student newspaper alleges Arkansas assistant threw reporter’s phone amid Musselman tirade

Arkansas coach Eric Musselman left the court docket in a tirade, Jack Weaver – a reporter for The Kentucky Kernel – after the Razorback fell 67-61 to No. 18 Texas A&M within the quarterfinal of the SEC males’s basketball match on Friday.

Within the course of, Weaver claims, a Razorbacks assistant grabbed his telephone and threw thrown to the bottom as they exited the coach.

The Kentucky Kernel, the unbiased pupil newspaper on the College of Kentucky, launched an announcement after the incident.

“The Kentucky Kernel is appalled by the actions of the Arkansas males’s basketball program. … no journalist, particularly a pupil journalist, needs to be subjected to violence for merely doing their job,” the assertion mentioned.

After the sport, whereas Musselman didn’t point out something in regards to the incident, he talked in regards to the officiating in the course of the sport.

“In the event you get down 7-0 within the foul rely at any stage, whether or not it’s CYO, faculty, the NBA, it impacts your aggressiveness defensively, particularly a staff that shoots foul pictures percentage-wise in addition to Texas A&M has all season lengthy,” Musselman mentioned.

Wade Taylor scored 18 factors to assist Texas A&M (24-8) advance for the second straight yr to the semifinals, the place it’s going to play Vanderbilt, which beat Kentucky.

Arkansas (20-13) will now look ahead to Choice Sunday to study its postseason destiny.

The Related Press contributed to this report.