MILWAUKEE — Just when it seemed as if the Louisiana State men’s basketball team couldn’t entertain any more theater-of-the-absurd moments, along came Friday night for the team whose head coach and top assistant were fired last week after a long-awaited formal complaint by the N.C.A.A. accused them of paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to recruits and their families.
Shortly after Efton Reid made a pair of free throws early in the second half of a first-round game against Iowa State, the referees discovered a problem: L.S.U. had six players on the court, which is one more than allowed.