Ending of UCLA/ IOWA Game: Bad UCONN Memory

[Rowdy831]

And yet they were (and still are) ranked ahead of them.

yep

 

[The deacon]

Yup. It is reminiscent of the end of the UConn-Baylor elite eight game 4 years ago. Dijonnai Carrington, who was a great midrange shooter, elected to drive directly into Aaliyah and Liv for a contested layup rather than take the wide open 10 footer. She was hoping for a whistle and the refs didn't give it to her. Kim was outraged on the sidelines afterwards. But to me it just looked like bad coaching. This was how she'd taught her players to play and they got burned by it. Refs don't like to decide games for the players.

Agreed, Bone Dog, about the coaching aspect of that Carrington play, and no tears shed here for Mulkey. Yet the reality of that play was that both Aaliyah and Liv fouled Carrington, and the Huskies skated to victory (thankfully). In truth, in perhaps trying to let the players decide the game, the refs decided the outcome anyway.

Other posters have been focusing on how the Iowa/UCLA game might affect UCLA in the polls... think how the game's result might have done in the Hawkeyes' tournament hopes.

 

[BBallF]

It’s also an illegal screen if the feet are wider than shoulder width

They definitely were.

 

[BBallF]

She moved her hip also. That should have been obvious to one of the officials.

It was obvious. He was looking right at it. What was also obvious was Olsen tripping into the other player. That's what he called.

 

[Bone Dog]

Other posters have been focusing on how the Iowa/UCLA game might affect UCLA in the polls... think how the game's result might have done in the Hawkeyes' tournament hopes.

It looks like it might not hurt Iowa's hopes at all, at least going by the AP rankings which are not directly relevant. It might even help them, since they got 2 votes this time around, up 2 from last week.

 

[robert]

I just watched it. She moved her leg into Olsen. Awful call. It was either a no call or an offensive foul.

It should be an offensive foul…

 

[Alydar]

The other factor in these end of game violations is the question of whether they made the same calls during the game. There should be consistency within a game and from game to game but the reality is that refs have personal standards as to block/charge type calls. In most games moving screens are 90% ignored unless either the screener or the screened defender fall. Nowadays falling has become a requirement to get a whistle. Once we get down to Quad 4 teams games would take 3+ hours if all the violations were called.

 

[The deacon]

It looks like it might not hurt Iowa's hopes at all, at least going by the AP rankings which are not directly relevant. It might even help them, since they got 2 votes this time around, up 2 from last week.

Sort of agree, Bone Dog, but staying with UCLA and beating it are to different things. A win in that game most certainly would have enhanced the Hawkeyes' tournament bid hopes (although pretty good chance UCLA would have won even with a different call on that play).