Video: Wilbur Cross boys basketball coach in a rage at game officials as players restrain him.

It was not the best season for the Wilbur Cross High School boys basketball varsity team but the players showed they are champions despite their coach. In the aftermath of a late season loss, Kevin Walton, Sr., was recorded by a hallway video camera exploding in a torrent of abuse as he emerged from the team’s locker room and ran at game officials.

Walton screamed at the referees, accusing them of being racist cheaters as he heaped profanity on them. Players, who followed Walton out of the locker room, restrained the raging coach and guided him back to the locker room.

The players exhibited exemplary maturity that they must not have learned from their unspeakable coach.

In addition to coaching a Wilbur Cross, Walton is the Director of Equity and Inclusion at Area Cooperative Educational Services (ACES).

Walton is the husband of State Board of Education Chairperson Karen DuBois-Walton. She sought the Democratic nomination for mayor of New Haven in 2021 and the party’s nomination for state treasurer in 2022, losing to Erick Russell.

Kevin Walton, Jr., is an assistant coach for the Wilbur Cross boys basketball team.

Published March 13, 2024.