ANN ARBOR, Mich. — It was indefensible Sunday, when a postgame handshake line suddenly became a mosh pit — and perilously close to a crime scene — after Michigan's loss to Wisconsin in Madison.
So it was inevitable Monday, when the Big Ten Conference, working in concert with administrators from both schools, announced a handful of suspensions, starting with head coach Juwan Howard, who took a swipe at a Wisconsin assistant coach in the middle of Sunday's scrum and now will lose his seat on the Wolverines' bench for the rest of the regular season.
Howard will miss Michigan's final five games and pay a $40,000 fine for his central role in Sunday's fiasco, as frustrations from the end of the Wolverines' 77-63 loss boiled over in an embarrassing display of unchecked emotions.
