Baton Rouge, La. -- Georgia men's basketball coach Dennis Felton said officials ejected the wrong player during Sunday's 71-64 loss to LSU.

And he's got the video to prove it.

Sundiata Gaines, the Bulldogs' co-captain and most indispensable player, was ejected with 13:20 remaining for a flagrant intentional foul for allegedly forearming LSU's Alex Farrer while the two players scrambled for a loose ball. Georgia led 48-45 at the time.

Two other UGA players went on to foul out and the already-shorthanded Bulldogs finished with only five scholarship players.

Felton reviewed video after the game on his laptop computer in the visiting coaches' locker room at Pete Maravich Assembly Center. He said the LSU player, Farrer, should have been ejected for punching Gaines in the mouth.

"Obviously I've watched it on tape and I saw the kid Farrer throw a punch unprovoked right in his face," said Felton, who showed the video to reporters. "And that's exactly what Sundiata told me. And Sundiata didn't swing back. He rolled back and lunged at him with a forearm."

After the game, Gaines pulled down his bottom lip to reveal a gash in the gum line.

"There's no way their kid should play the next game," Felton said. "He landed a punch that drew blood."

The three officials reviewed television replays for several minutes on a small courtside monitor and had a brief discussion before lead official Ted Valentine emerged from the huddle and ejected Gaines.

The officials weren't available for comment after the game but Tom Eades, who whistled the technical, issued a statement through the LSU sports information department.

"Two kids were tied up for a loose ball and I saw the player from Georgia come around with a forearm to the head of the player from LSU," Eades said. "I blew the whistle and called a technical foul. We went to the monitor for two reasons: To see if the LSU player did anything to make the player from Georgia do what he did and to verify what I saw the Georgia player do.

"We looked at two angles. We were able to verify that the Georgia player threw a forearm to the head of the player from LSU and anytime a forearm goes to the head it is a flagrant foul. We also determined that the LSU player did nothing to prompt the Georgia player to do what he did. It was just two players going for a loose ball."

Felton was dumbfounded the officials could come to that conclusion.

"I have no idea what they were looking at," he said.

The good news for Georgia is, since it was not considered a punch, there will be no ramifications for Gaines beyond this game.

The bad news is the Bulldogs (12-15, 3-11 SEC), who had led by as many as 16 points in the first half, lost for the 10th time in the last 11 games. They're now assured of finishing in last place in the Eastern Division.

LSU (12-16, 5-9) wins its third straight and fourth in the last seven games since coach John Brady was fired on Jan. 8. The Tigers were led by Marcus Thornton, who had 36 points, Anthony Randolph added 19 points and they blocked 11 Georgia shots.

It was a tough day all the way around for Gaines. He finished with just four points on 2-of-7 shooting in 24 minutes.

Gaines regretted the incident but didn't feel he should have been ejected.

"I just thought it was part of the game," said Gaines, who watched the rest of the game on a television in the visitor's locker room. "It was physical; it was just the heat of the moment. Unfortunately [LSU] benefited. It cost my team because they depend on me."

Georgia almost won anyway. Riding a career-high 26 points from junior guard Billy Humphrey, the Bulldogs led with less than seven minutes remaining and were within 65-64 with 1:20 to go.