Juwan Howard comments on postgame fight after Michigan-Wisconsin game

Juwan Howard has offered his explanation for what happened after the Michigan-Wisconsin game.

Juwan Howard took offense to a late timeout from Wisconsin and took a swing in the handshake line, chaos ensues pic.twitter.com/dk4hnkTscP

— CJ Fogler AKA Perc70 #BlackLivesMatter (@cjzero) February 20, 2022

Howard confirmed that the heated exchange that became physical was over Wisconsin’s late timeout.

“I didn’t like the timeout being called. I’ll be totally honest with you: I thought it was not necessary at that moment,” Howard said. “… I thought that was, what I felt, wasn’t fair to our guys. And so that’s what happened.”

Howard pointed to Wisconsin coach Greg Gard making contact with Howard, to keep him from walking away while discussing the timeout, was what escalated the incident.

Howard added, “Basically, I addressed with the head coach that I will remember that, because of that timeout. For someone to touch me, I think that was very uncalled for, for him to touch me, as we were verbalizing to communicate with one another. That’s what ended up happening. And that’s what escalated it.”

Here's Juwan Howard's side to the story.

Added later that he felt he needed to protect himself, because Greg Gard touched him unnecessarily in the handshake line after he had gotten upset.#Badgers pic.twitter.com/hFWrEtBv1v

— Evan Flood (@Evan_Flood) February 20, 2022

Juwan Howard says Greg Gard touching him "unnecessarily" in the post-game handshake line escalated the situation.

"I thought it was time to protect myself."

FWIW Gard is 5-11. Howard is 6-9.

He also swung at Joe Krabbenhoft a few moments later.#Badgers pic.twitter.com/RlgmosIOLi

— Evan Flood (@Evan_Flood) February 20, 2022

[H/T The Michigan Insider]

Andrew Olson

A former Florida beat reporter, Andrew writes for the Saturday Tradition News Desk.