Gibson gets technical
After fouling Taylor Harrison inside, Taj Gibson got a technical foul right after the play ended. It was a strange play. Gibson seemed to throw out a closed fist that struck Harrison in the face. But Gibson was looking the other direction when he did it, and the blow didn't land hard. The refs didn't seem to see the play clearly. Gibson is lucky he wasn't booted from the game.
Matthew Kredell broke into the Daily News in 1998, working part time
at the paper while going to USC. The basketball team’s Elite Eight
run in 2000-01 was USC’s athletic highlight in his time at the
school, when the football team was stuck in the Paul Hackett-era.
After graduating in 2001, he started writing for the Daily News full
time. He’s in his second year covering USC, which coincides with the
rise of the program. He’ll take credit for the success, though Tim
Floyd may have more to do with it. A third-generation Los Angelean,
he grew up reading the Daily News while at El Camino Real High School
in Woodland Hills.