Late Call at Stanford Fit UCLA’s Wilson to a ‘T’ : UCLA: Pac-10 supervisor says his official did the right thing in Cardinal’s victory over Bruins.

Mark Reischling was justified in calling a technical foul against UCLA’s Trevor Wilson Thursday night at Stanford, the supervisor of basketball officials for the Pacific 10 Conference said Friday.

“In this particular instance, I think Mark was well within his rights to adhere the technical,” Frank McIntyre of the Pac-10 said.

UCLA trailed Stanford, 71-70, with 2 minutes 56 seconds left when Wilson threw up his arms and screamed at Reischling after the official had called a foul against Wilson for hacking Stanford’s John Patrick.

According to the officials’ report of the game, attended by McIntyre, Wilson said to Reischling: “That’s a bull . . . call.”

Said McIntyre: “There’s no way that we can tolerate that sort of language. That’s the reason, truthfully, that he was ‘T’d’.”

Before UCLA regained possession, Stanford scored six consecutive points for a 77-70 lead en route to an 87-79 upset.

“To sum it up, I blew it,” Wilson said Friday. “I think we had a chance to win that game. We overcame a lot of adversity, overcame a 10-point deficit. We were right there in the game, and my outburst took it away from us.”

But he shouldn’t have been given a technical, Wilson said.

“I could understand if I used profanity, it would be justified,” he said. “But in that situation, I don’t think it was justified at all.”

According to the officials’ report, of course, he swore.

“That’s a lie,” Wilson said.

Reischling could not be reached for comment.

UCLA Coach Jim Harrick reiterated his belief, stated after the game, that a technical should not have been called at that point.

“You’ve got to understand that the first rule of officiating is, let the kids decide the outcome of the game,” Harrick said.

Technicals should be called early, if at all, Harrick said.

Said McIntyre: “Are we mind readers? When in the world are we going to know when to call a technical early in the game? We can’t contemplate when a ‘T’ is going to happen. Hopefully, it never happens.

“We did everything we could to avoid the situation. We wanted the kids to settle it, but someplace along the way, a line’s got to be drawn.”

Wilson crossed that line Thursday night, McIntyre said.

“I’ll bet you, today, he wishes he had that call back and had handled the situation differently,” Harrick said of Reischling.