Tensions run high during March Madness game as fan throws water bottle on court

It was aboriginal exit for the eighth-seeded Louisville Cardinals, who mislaid to No. 9 Creighton, 89-75, successful their location authorities of Kentucky successful March Madness Thursday.

In the game's last moments, frustrations boiled over.

Louisville caput manager Pat Kelsey was called for a method foul aft screaming astatine an official, but that was the slightest worrisome incident.

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The March Madness logo during a First Four signifier astatine UD Arena. (Rick Osentoski/Imagn Images)

As some teams huddled owed to the foul, a instrumentality threw a h2o vessel connected the tribunal toward the Creighton bench, prompting a insignificant delay.

"That was a afloat vessel of water. That was precise dangerous, and it went close implicit the Creighton bench," play-by-play announcer Brian Anderson said. "I’ll archer ya, whoever did that should ne'er beryllium allowed to travel into this arena again."

Creighton caput manager Greg McDermott utilized a towel to hitch up the water.

Jamiya Neal scored a career-high 29 points and had 12 rebounds, portion Steven Ashworth connected from good beyond the arc connected the mode to 22 points.

McDermott's Bluejays (25-10) won their 5th consecutive March Madness opener and bushed a squad ranked successful the apical 10 for the 2nd clip this season. Louisville (27-8), contempt its unimpressive seeding, entered astatine No. 10 successful the AP Top 25.

Creighton Bluejays caput manager Greg McDermott cleans up h2o thrown onto the tribunal by a instrumentality during the 2nd fractional of a crippled against the Louisville Cardinals successful the archetypal circular of the NCAA Tournament astatine Rupp Arena. (Aaron Doster/Imagn Images)

Chucky Hepburn scored 22 points, and Terrence Edwards Jr. had 21 for Louisville (27-8), which improved its grounds by 19 wins implicit past play with a transfer-heavy roster nether Kelsey, a first-year caput coach. It was the Cardinals' archetypal March Madness quality since 2019, and they ran into a Creighton squad with plentifulness of postseason experience.

"They played good today. They were the amended team," Kelsey said.

Louisville Cardinals caput manager Pat Kelsey jaws astatine an authoritative during the 2nd fractional of a first-round crippled successful the 2025 NCAA Tournament astatine Rupp Arena successful Lexington, Ky., Thursday, March 20, 2025. (Matt Stone/Courier Journal/USA Today Network via Imagn Images)

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The Bluejays look No. 1 Auburn successful the Round of 32 Saturday. An upset would gain Creighton it's 4th Sweet 16 quality successful the past 5 tournaments.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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