When it comes to technical fouls, Jefferson’s head coach Bud Pollard certainly gets his fair share, but usually they help fire up his team. Wednesday night against New Jersey powerhouse St. Anthony, his technical foul in the second quarter probably cost his team the game.

Jefferson was up 23-21 midway through the second quarter when an altercation erupted between Pollard and Jalen Evans’ father, Ken Evans, that stopped the game for about five minutes. As soon as the game resumed, St. Anthony started a 16-1 run that led to an easy second half and a 71-60 victory at Lincoln High School in Brooklyn.

The game was a battle between ESPNNewYork.com's top-ranked team and the No. 3 team in ESPNHS' Powerade Fab 50 poll and reigning mythical national champions in St. Anthony. St. Anthony has now won 54 games in a row.

“Bud gets a little too hyped,” Jefferson’s Jaquan Lynch said. “I think he needs some chill juice if they have something called that. We tried to forget about it, but it messed up our whole game after that. We just didn't have the same energy because we were worried about that.”

Pollard pulled Evans from the game after he missed a loose ball that the coach thought he should have had. Pollard let Evans know that he was upset over the play and his father took exception to the exchange, walked up behind him near the bench and got in Pollard's face, shouting expletives as the two nearly came to blows.

“Jalen's father thought he should get some more playing time,” Thaddeus Hall explained. “He's a good player, he just needs to be a little tougher. I thought he could have gotten that loose ball and coach kind of got on him a little for that, took him out of the game, and that's when his father got mad.”

STILL GOT LOVE FOR BUD: An altercation between a coach and player, in this case the player’s father, can kill the chemistry on a team, but Hall said after the game that it was just Bud being Bud and that there is no ill will between anyone.

“We support Bud and we support Jalen and his father too,” Hall said. “We're still a family, nobody is going to have hurt feelings. Nobody is going to dislike Jalen.”

While everyone is saying the right things, Pollard seems to think that success may be getting to his team’s head.

“When we were losing I never had to deal with this,” Pollard said. “Now that we're winning, I guess we have some kids excelling now and I guess everyone can't excel. We're having more problems now than we did when we were losing.”

LEARNING FROM A LOSS: This victory ended Jefferson’s 12-game winning streak, but headed into the PSAL city playoffs a lot of people thought that Jefferson (21-6) could definitely take away some positives from this game.

“My coach set these games up on purpose to see what our errors were before the city playoffs,” Lynch said. "We're going to use a lot of what happened here today in practice this week as we get ready.”

However, not everyone was happy to take the loss.

“Anybody can be beaten at any time,” Hall said. “They are just ranked higher on the internet. I don't play off of who is ranked where. It's a basketball game anybody can be beaten. I really felt like we could have beaten them today, but a lot of things went wrong.”

STATS: Hall and Jaquan Lynch each had 21. St. Anthony (21-0) had five players in double digits. Kyle Anderson quietly led his team with 13 points, Jerome Frink, Josh Brown, and Hallice Cooke each had 12 points, and Tariq Carey had 11.

UP NEXT: Jefferson will look to bounce back when it takes on Xaverian this weekend.