Louisville’s Crum Reprimanded

Louisville Coach Denny Crum was reprimanded by Conference USA commissioner Mile Slive on Thursday for comments made about the officiating in the Cardinals’ 71-70 loss to Marquette on Saturday.

“Coach Crum’s postgame comments were in violation of the conference’s code of conduct which requires that coaches refrain from public criticism of officials,” Slive said in a statement. “Coach Crum apologized for this violation of league policy and assured the conference that no similar violation will occur in the future.”

In the game, a goaltending call against Louisville with 14.9 seconds left cut the Cardinal lead to 70-68.

Television replays seemed to show that Nate Johnson hit Marcus West’s shot on the way up.

“The goaltending call wasn’t even close,” Crum said after the game. “I mean that the ball hadn’t started down or even come close to being goaltending.

“There were so many bad calls at the game it was sickening.”

Brian Wardle’s three-point basket at the buzzer gave Marquette the victory.