Playing in a single-elimination competition such as the NCAA Tournament, things between both teams can get chippy and emotions are easy to come out.

That seems to be the case in Sunday's second-round NCAA Tournament game between 4 seed Alabama and 12 seed Grand Canyon, as six fouls were called in the first eight minutes — four of which have been called against the Crimson Tide.

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The disparity in fouls got Tide coach Nate Oats rattled and fired up on the sideline, so much so that Oats was tabbed with a technical foul at the 11:58 mark of the first half after arguing his case that fouls have been called one sided against Alabama.

"The calls down here aren't equal to the calls down there," Oats told TBS' Lauren Shehadi during a media timeout. "They're two different refs but they need to have consistency within the crew. I'm not happy with it."

Alabama bench, Nick Pringle gets technical

Shortly after Oats received a technical himself, the Tide bench was given a technical of their own.

TBS reported that Tide forward Nick Pringle threw a clipboard onto the floor, resulting in the technical and a brief stoppage of the play. Grand Canyon's Ray Harrison hit three free-throws as a result of the technical foul.

Here's a video of what led to the technical being given to the Alabama bench, in which you can see Pringle slamming down the clipboard on the bench with a piece of it flying onto the court:

4 seed Alabama currently was tied with 12 seed Grand Canyon 28-28 as of the final TV timeout of the first half of the second round of the NCAA Tournament.

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