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[Fairfield_1st]

2: The foul on Facey for going straight up and making contact with Jones' extending forearm.

That call was very bad.
I was also particularly peeved about a rebound Okafor got. The announcers were loving what a great rebound and putback he just got, but the replay shows two arms on the UConn player's back. Bilas may have made mention of it. Should have been an offensive foul.
As everyone else said, we didn't play well enough to win, but there were some head scratchers. Would love to hear more about the official that never called a foul on Duke. That strikes me as almost impossible to do given how much contact goes on.

 

[Gampeltiles]

JC actually lauded the trio (along with Bilas) before the game. The game was reffed poorly, but fixed? Carton loves to light fires

 

[UConniki]

Randy LaVigne went to South Catholic

Thank you, I went to school with him. he was a 2 sport star, baseball and basketball, great guy !

 

[Huskygamble19]

Officiating was horrible, at the IZOD Center the crowd was chanting "Ref's U Suck". But that isn't why we lost. No ability to score from our centers, no bench scoring, not hitting free throws, no ability to stick a 3 (besides Boat).

No ability to score from our centers...Maybe because Brimah hardly ever saw the floor. Came a long way from the 40 points against Coppin State.

 

[DarthGrumpy]

@Mr. Conehead Don't think so on the travel.

Thanks.

 

[Milo65]

No ability to score from our centers...Maybe because Brimah hardly ever saw the floor. Came a long way from the 40 points against Coppin State.

Duke is not Coppin State. No threes, no inside scoring, no bench scoring, no wins

 

[Bradleypalmer]

Still waiting for the thread with posts that say: "I can't believe how many calls went our way against (insert non-P5 team)!"

Agreed there were some shaky calls against Duke, but let's worry about fixing what we can.

 

[BoatShow]

No ability to score from our centers...Maybe because Brimah hardly ever saw the floor. Came a long way from the 40 points against Coppin State.

If UConn hit all their free throws they still lose.

 

[auror]

Stated one ref in particular will come under scrutiny. Apparently the ref named Randy Levine. The entire game he did not make one single call against Duke.

Roger Ayers - in the ref who did not make one single call on a Duke Player.

For the record, Ken Pomeroy just tweeted:
Ken Pomeroy‏@kenpomeroy
Ayers has most conservative whistle of 349 D-I refs: -3.6 fouls per 40 all by himself.

So... yeah. Enough conspiracy theories. He didn't call fouls on Duke because he doesn't call fouls in general.