Arizona athletic director Desireé Reed-Francois said,"The chant is not reflective of who we are and should not have happened.”

Arizona has apologized after the school says some fans participated in an “unacceptable chant” following the basketball team’s 96-95 loss to BYU on Saturday night.

In the early hours of Sunday morning, Arizona issued an apology for a derogatory chant aimed at BYU. The Cougars pulled off a closely contested 96-95 upset win

The 6-foot-4 guard hit both to put Arizona up by a point before Wildcats forward Trey Townsend was called for a foul on BYU’s Richie Saunders with 3.2 seconds left, a call that elicited boos from those in attendance at the McKale Center in Tucson.

There are many ways for a ranked team, like No. 19 Arizona, to lose to a non-ranked team, like BYU. The Wildcats experienced one of the worst ones on Saturday. A back-and-forth Big 12 game in which neither team ever led by double digits ended in controversy in Tucson when the Cougars got an absolute gift of a foul in crunch time.