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John Beilein second career ejection not reason why Michigan basketball lost

Michigan basketball coach John Beilein speaks to the media after the 75-69 loss at Penn State on Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2019, in State College, Pa. Orion Sang, Detroit Free Press

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — John Beilein has been a college basketball coach since 1978.

In all those years, he was ejected from a game only once, during his tenure as head coach at Erie (N.Y.) Community College.

Until Tuesday night.

At the end of the first half in No. 6 Michigan basketball's 75-69 loss at Penn State, Beilein began arguing with officials over what the Wolverines appeared to have perceived as a missed illegal screen call.