A Utah Tech University basketball player has gone viral after being captured on video punching an opponent who dunked on him.
On Wednesday night (December 3), Utah’s Chance Trujillo swung on Santa Clara University’s Allen Graves after being dunked on, as seen in the video below.
Graves leapt over Trujillo for a bucket with one minute remaining. When Graves went to celebrate the win, he bumped into Trujillo, who reacted by hitting Graves in the face.
Graves’ teammate held him back when he tried to confront Trujillo, and Trujillo ended up walking away from the altercation. Both players were hit with technical fouls on the play, as well as Santa Clara’s Brenton Knapper. Santa Clara ultimately won the game with 86-77.
Utah Tech's basketball coach, Jon Judkins, hasn't spoken on the incident, and neither did Santa Clara coach Herb Sendek during the post-game press conference.
Trujillo’s behavior could be met with repercussions from the Western Athletic Conference. The Trailblazers’ next game is on December 13.
In December last year, an Iowa high school basketball player was arrested for sucker-punching an opponent after losing a game.
Footage of the incident showed the Carlisle Wildcats player hitting a member of his Nevada High School opponents, when the two teams exchanged handshakes after the game.
In the nine-second video, the Wildcats player hits his opponent twice; once in the stomach and once in the face. At the end of the video, players from both teams are attempting to separate the two.
The Nevada player — identified as senior Ty Dittmer, the team’s guard — can be seen falling backward onto his teammate, who then starts throwing punches at the Carlisle player, senior Carter Prenosil.
Prenosil was later arrested on a felony charge of willful injury, causing serious injury. He was then released on bond.
