A postgame handshake line erupted into a two-team fracas in Fargo when Oral Roberts University men's basketball coach Paul Mills confronted North Dakota State over some perceived showboating.
The incident took place after Mills's Golden Eagles fell, 77-59, to an NDSU team that punctuated its victory with an emphatic, celebratory dunk as time expired: Guard Maleeck Harden-Hayes stole the ball from Oral Roberts' Max Abmas with the game in hand and only a few seconds on the clock before cruising in for an uncontested dunk just after the buzzer.
Although the basket didn't count, some NDSU players celebrated as if it had, while others lined up to shake hands with the defeated Golden Eagles.
Mills, apparently objecting to the dunk or the celebration, then confronted NDSU players and Bison head coach Dave Richman off screen, which instantly ignited a shoving match.
'Some interesting words being exchanged here between Paul Mills and Dave Richman,' one of the announcers said as the cameras shifted to get the postgame skirmish in frame. 'Mills not happy there at the end of that game. And now some pushing and shoving.'