WASHINGTON — Sometimes, a coach just can’t stop being a coach.

Such was the case Tuesday night, when Mike Lonergan, the head coach of the George Washington men’s basketball team, got a bit heated at his daughter’s JV basketball game and was asked to leave.

Lonergan joined The Sports Junkies on 106.7 The Fan Wednesday to talk GW basketball, but a few minutes into the call, host Jason Bishop asked the coach to confirm or deny a story he’d heard.

“Speaking of your kid, someone texted me that you got kicked out of your daughter’s game last night at St. John’s. Is that true?”

The game in question was a women’s junior varsity game between St. John’s College High School and Elizabeth Seton. Take it away, coach:

“That could be a little exaggerated. I rush over to St. John’s to catch the Seton JV game. Middle of the third quarter, my daughter — they’re down like four — so start of the fourth quarter, she gets a foul called, and the scorer’s table hits the horn and says she’s got five fouls. So my wife, she’s sitting … near me in the bleachers, I said ‘she doesn’t have five fouls.’ She said ‘no way she has five.’ So my daughter goes to the bench, bawling, she’s crying, so I look over, I say ‘Hey, do you have five?’ She said ‘No.’ So, I thought I was discreet, I waited till the next timeout, and I went over to the scorer’s table and I asked the little young lady that was sitting there, from St. John’s, I said ‘Hey, how many fouls does No. 13 have?’ She said ‘Well, I only had her for four.’ So some middle-aged loser at the scorer’s table starts yelling at me, asking me who I am. I said, ‘I’m nobody. I’m just, my daughter’s down there crying, I know she doesn’t have five fouls and I’m just curious why, you know, you got her for five. And then he called over a policeman — who I knew, I used to play basketball with [him] — so I just went into the hallway and talked with him, and then I just said ‘Well I better get out of here.’ So that was a little embarrassing, to say the least.”

Bishop, amid a chorus of laughter from his co-hosts, asked, “So they never corrected it?”

“No! And so, I don’t think my daughter knows I got thrown out, ’cause it was pretty, kinda quietly done. I went and sat down, and the cop came over and said, ‘Hey, they want you to leave.’ I’m like, ‘Are you kidding me? Alright.’ My wife didn’t even say anything to me, so I don’t know how the heck you could know. I think maybe I had a Nike shirt on, and since they’re owned by Under Armour over there, maybe they got upset with that.”

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