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Sherrone Moore does flag-planting gesture while attending Michigan basketball game

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Michigan Wolverines football head coach Sherrone Moore after beating Ohio State. (Photo by Junfu Han / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)
Michigan Wolverines football head coach Sherrone Moore after beating Ohio State. (Photo by Junfu Han / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

While attending Saturday’s Michigan basketball game, Sherrone Moore appeared on the video board. After his introduction, he did a flag-planting gesture – alluding to last week’s win over Ohio State when the Wolverines attempted to put their flag at midfield.

Michigan got the victory in this year’s installment of The Game, and after the clock hit zeroes, the players attempted to celebrate at midfield. That included planting a UM flag, and that set off a brawl between the Wolverines and Ohio State.

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Moore attended Saturday’s game with Five Star Plus+ quarterback signee Bryce Underwood. That already had the crowd fired up, and the head coach got an even louder roar from the Michigan faithful.

Last week’s brawl led to punishments against both Michigan and Ohio State. The Big Ten fined both programs $100,000 for their roles in the incident, which followed the Wolverines’ 13-10 victory on a last-second field goal at The Horseshoe. Players from both teams were sprayed with pepper spray amid the melee, as well.

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Moore addressed the situation in his postgame press conference, pointing out the emotional nature of the rivalry game. He also made it clear something like the brawl shouldn’t happen.

“It was emotions on both sides,” Moore said. “And our guys, I did see they had the flag and guys were waving it around and their guys charged us. So it’s emotion on both sides, it can’t happen. So rivalry games get heated, especially this one, it’s the biggest one in the country, so we’ve got to handle that better.”

Sherrone Moore was also asked about the fact that Ohio State police and other law enforcement on the field used pepper spray to separate the teams. He said the police were trying to get everything under control and he planned to address the situation with the team.

“Those were the officers that were around,” Moore said about the pepper spray. “They were just trying to control, the security was trying to control everything. They got both sides of guys, trying to make sure we took care of them. But we’ve gotta do a better job handling that, as a group. I’ll address it in the locker room, we’ll address it again. But that’s both sides.”