Why the Iowa-Florida scuffle resulted in technicals — and not an ejection
Iowa's Alvaro Folgueiras and Florida's Alex Condon received technical fouls for a Sunday scuffle. A closer look at the play.
Whether you felt Iowa basketball player Alvaro Folgueiras deserved a technical foul or an ejection Sunday night probably depended on which team you were rooting for. Hawkeye fans will probably tell you that Folgueiras and Florida's Alex Condon were simply battling for a loose ball in the first half, and that Folgueiras swung a closed fist to try to dislodge the ball. Gator fans will likely say that Folgueiras had bad intentions with his fist and should have received a flagrant-2 foul, resulting in automatic ejection.
The referees' opinions were the only ones that mattered, and they determined after watching video replay that each player deserved a technical foul and nothing more. Iowa's Alvaro Folgueiras & Florida's Alex Condon received technical fouls on this play. pic.
twitter. com/IKcZiqsPvP — CBS Sports College Basketball 🏀 (@CBSSportsCBB) March 22, 2026 Florida coach Todd Golden certainly did not agree with that assessment. He scolded the officials after they made their ruling, throwing in some colorful language while he was at it.
Golden discussed the play with reporters after his top-seeded Gators fell 73-72 in an NCAA Tournament second-round game in Tampa, Fla. "I was told (Folgueiras) threw a punch, but it didn't connect," Golden said. "So, it didn't go higher than a Flagrant 1.