The dunk -- with the game long decided -- came off an alley-oop pass at the final horn, was taken as an insult by Utes fans -- and, apparently, Boylen.

"When I asked Heath about it, he said, 'I was telling them to pull the ball out,'" Boylen said at his weekly press conference Monday. "Well, he wasn't telling them to pull the ball out. We got it on film that he wasn't telling them to pull the ball out."

The play infuriated Boylen, who confronted Schroyer in an angry and profane shouting match after the game. In a press conference later, Schroyer repeated his assertion that the Cowboys wanted to let the clock run out, and described the play as "instinctive."

"Well, we don't have those kind of instincts around here," Boylen said. "So, we'll see them again -- that's what's great about league play. But, you know, we're going to run our program with class and we're going to do it right."

Boylen acknowledged that "mistakes will happen," but said he felt that his team "deserved an apology from him on that, and there was no remorse there and there was no respect for the game, and we don't believe in that here."

The loss extended Utah's losing streak to four games, heading into the final home game of the season against Colorado State on Tuesday night.

The Utes are expect to stick with a new starting lineup that includes guard Luka Drca and forward Kim Tillie instead of guard Tyler Kepkay and center Luke Nevill, Boylen said, and need to win to avoid the lingering -- albeit, extremely unlikely -- possibility that they will need to win a play-in game just to reach the main field for the Mountain West Conference tournament in Las Vegas.