[zm1283]

BV tournament today. Home team is the host school. The game is a mess...no flow, lots of fouls, turnovers, etc. We get in the bonus both ways in the first half. I grant the V coach a timeout with about 2:30 left in the 3rd quarter and I'm standing right in front of his bench. Before I go to report the timeout, he tells me something along the lines of "You've gotta get them off of us, one of my guys is going to throw an elbow". The only thing I said at the time was "Coach, that would not be a good idea at all". (The fouls were 6-5 at this point, 5:30 into the 3rd quarter....we were calling fouls)

After the timeout, I walk back by his bench and he informs me that "Number 11 is the dirtiest player in the area...blah blah blah". I just tell him that if 11 fouls we will call it. (The truth is that 11 was the other team's best player and they were beating the Visitors by 10+ most of the game)

Would you guys have handled this differently? Are any of you of the opinion that a T was warranted for the threat of an elbow by his team? If they did do it, I don't think a flagrant would have been out of the question at all for the guilty player.