Even for a coach as mercurial as Iowa's Fran McCaffery and a league as incident-prone as the Big Ten, this was a new one.
With 1:29 left in the Hawkeyes' home game against Michigan State Saturday afternoon, McCaffery left Iowa’s huddle during a timeout and walked over to official Kelly Pfeifer. McCaffery, sitting on a technical foul with his team trailing 91–81, simply stared down Pfeifer, before both men took steps toward each other.
After a profoundly bizarre 10 seconds—during which announcers Kevin Brown and Robbie Hummel both seemed at a loss for words—McCaffery’s assistants herded him back to huddle.
