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The Omaha (Neb.) Burke High girls basketball team got a technical Monday night for wearing pink, and it has a lot of people seeing red.
The Bulldogs wore pink against visiting Columbus to support a Make-A-Wish fundraiser.
With Burke leading by a point at halftime, Columbus coach Dave Licari brought up a state rule with the referees about home teams needing to wear white. The refs then assessed a technical against the Bulldogs.
In the end the visitors won 62-47, but that didn't soothe some who saw the act as a horrible example of sportsmanship.
Burke AD Kyle Rohrig took the hit upon himself, telling Mike Patterson of the (Omaha) World-Herald that "We had good intentions, but we made a mistake, and then there were consequences."
Columbus AD John Krogstrand was the person who brought the uniform situation to his coach but said "it was a situation where we just asked the officials, and they called the foul But when you want to maintain the integrity of the game, you've got to play by the rules."
