A near-brawl and a flurry of technical fouls led to Alabama basketball playing what coaches and players said was one of the most bizarre games they’ve seen. Much less seen first hand.

Against Minnesota in the Barclays Center, Alabama’s Dazon Ingram and Minnesota’s Dupree McBrayer started a dustup near the Alabama bench, according to the Associated Press. That followed a stare down and words exchanged between Alabama’s Collin Sexton, who scored 40 points, and Minnesota’s Nate Mason, who had 20. Sexton and Mason were each given technicals and Mason was ejected.

That erupted into five Alabama players coming off the bench, and Ingram, who had four fouls before that started, fouling out.

After all those calls, No. 25 Alabama was left with three players on the court against No. 14 Minnesota for the last 10 minutes in the 89-84 loss.

“By rule, whenever a potential situation occurs on the court, no player may leave the bench area. If they do leave the bench area and don’t participate in the altercation that’s going on then they are ejected from this contest and there’s no further penalty, which is what happened,” the officials told a pool reporter. “They all came onto the court. We went to the monitor and reviewed all of that. Based on the views that were given us it showed all of their players on the bench, came off the bench onto the court. The views we were given we didn’t see anyone from the Minnesota bench come onto the floor.”

Despite losing another player to an ankle injury, Alabama pulled within 83-80 before the Golden Gophers made enough free throws to pull away.

H/T for the video to @BattlesNBA.