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George Washington isn’t getting an invitation to the NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Tournament, unless they pull off some kind of miracle in the upcoming Atlantic 10 conference tournament. Of course, that’s not stopping its donors from diving headfirst into March Madness. Robert Kasmir, who was honored at halftime of the Colonials’ Saturday game against Dayton for making a five-figure donation to the university’s athletic department, was summarily tossed after yelling at the refs during the second half.

Here’s the Hatchet’s blog post about the incident:

From his sideline seat on the court, Robert Kasmir yelled at the referee over a foul call on sophomore forward David Pellom, prompting his removal from the court by a member of the athletics department.

“Basically, I told the ref he was the worst ref I’d ever seen and he wasn’t worth the $1,600 dollars they were paying him and that was it,” Kasmir said. “And then he ejected me from the game.”

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“I think the University is a great University. It has nothing to do with the University,” he said. “I think the official should never be allowed to officiate another game in the Atlantic 10, in college basketball, in the United States.”

As funny as that is, the best part of the story is probably that, according to Senior Vice Provost Robert Chernak, Kasmir got “a bigger ovation when he was thrown out than when he was on the court for his donation,” and that the team “started to play better afterwards, so maybe we need to make it a fan a game or something.” Seeing as Kasmir is a part-time accounting professor at G.W., might we suggest a jumbotron game of “Who’s More Crooked: Enron or Tonight’s Refs?”