Long term lurker. First time poster.
I decided to post based upon what happened with Williams and Alando Tucker.
The Badgers were huddling during a regular dead ballout. Since no time out (team or official) was called, opposing players are not required to go to their bench, and further, they can join such an informal, as any space on the court is permissible in a situation like that.
Tucker got quite inflammatory, and Williams was having none of it. Tucker escalated it by not backing down. A double technical was called to try and cool the tensions, as the game was still in doubt. The proper call should have been for Tucker to have received the technical. That is what Wisconsin gets on the court.
Interestingly, in postgame interviews, Gard insisted that the officials did the right thing by getting the Illini players out of their huddle. That is emphatically inaccurate, again, because there was no official time out. Complete sour grapes in his part, and if anything, it proves that he just a pouter.
It will be interesting to see if the league takes action against Tucker. I guess he had a similar altercation earlier in the year.
I am trying to find out what happened between Antigua and BU. It was not good, and it festered well into the postgame.