As someone who has played hockey for 35 years and also played dirty at times, I can say without a doubt that was a dirty play. His leg may have gone up in the air when he fell but he kicked it out. I have never seen anyone fall like that after that little of contact. I am disgusted by this play...
Why would the AAC be okay with 5+7? They have a chance to get a team in every year with 6+6. Otherwise they are competing with the Mtn PAC for the last of the 5, and they are never going to get an at large those years.
They are following the path of Minnesota in the 60s and 70s. If they aren't carefully they will be irrelevant by like the Gophers were in the 80s and 90s with a random good season every 5 to 10 years since the early 2000s.
I was working at the Gateway Hotel that night and almost ran into getting on the elevator. I thought for sure he was going to yell at me but he just looked at me and kept walking.
A little write up on Uni-watch. Scroll down below the basketball concept jerseys. https://uni-watch.com/2023/04/23/imagining-the-nba-in-reverse-retro-jerseys/