The Pac-12 doesn’t track these types of things, but the league has already issued three reprimands to men’s basketball coaches for criticizing officials, which has to be some sort of conference record.
The only thing more surprising than the frequency of reprimands is Arizona State’s combustible Bobby Hurley has somehow managed to keep his cool and avoid a public rebuke.
Still, it’s worth a quick review on what will draw the ire of Commissioner Larry Scott.
Following UCLA’s 74-64 defeat to North Carolina in December, the Pac-12’s etiquette police popped new Bruins coach Mick Cronin for telling the Los Angeles Times: “In defense of my players, I thought that the officials took the first half off.