UConn basketball coach Dan Hurley had a meltdown in the final minute of his team’s overtime loss to Memphis.

Connecticut, the NCAA’s No. 2 team, lost 99-97 in the first round of the Maui Invitational tournament and saw a 17-game winning streak that started last season end. Hurley blamed the referees, including Syracuse native Pat Driscoll, who has refereed college hoops for three decades.

Hurley was livid after Driscoll called an over-the-back offensive rebound against the Huskies’ Liam McNeeley when the game was tied with 40.3 seconds left. Hurley fell to the ground and was whistled for a technical foul.

“You’re a fucking joke!” Hurley yelled at the crew on duty. “You’re a joke!”

Memphis’ PJ Carter made four free throws – two for the personal foul, two for the technical foul – to put the Tigers ahead for good. Memphis coach Penny Hardaway called the win over the back-to-back defending champions the biggest win of his coaching career.

Hurley told CBS Sports that he didn’t think his technical foul was the reason his team lost: “I think it was the s—-y calls.”

Hurley, who had to be restrained by an assistant coach during the heated moment, continued to object to Driscoll after the game.

“For that call to be made at that point in the game was a complete joke,” Hurley told the media afterwards.

“Maybe I lost my balance because of the absurdity of the call, or maybe I tripped… But if I had made that call at that moment, I would have ignored the fact that I was on my back. If I had called that, I would have ignored it. I would have ignored that. That was clearly a major,” he continued. “How you could call that while that game was going on, the way that game was going on, is beyond me.”

ESPN reports that Driscoll officiated the game along with two other referees, Steven Anderson and Scott Brown. Hurley said he didn’t know any of them.

“I’ve never seen that one referee. I didn’t even know he was a college referee and I know the other two too, so I’m not surprised,” Hurley said.

According to the Associated Press, UConn was also called for a technicality about four minutes into the game when the team’s medical trainer said something the officials didn’t like. The Huskies’ Samson Johnson also was T’d up as part of a double technical midway through overtime.

‘Samson was pushed. His sweater was torn. He didn’t have a foul called the entire game,” Hurley said. “He finished the game with a torn jersey in the middle, but they get him on every call. He’s frustrated. That was crazy, man. Crazy.”

It was Connecticut’s first loss since Feb. 20, before winning the Big East Tournament and NCAA championship last season.

Driscoll was inducted into the Greater Syracuse Sports Hall of Fame in 2021 and has long been a figure in Central New York, including with the City of Syracuse, Say Yes to Education and the Boys and Girls Club of Syracuse.