I thought both strips looked good. Morgan on Fuehring (HUGE play) and someone stripped Durr going up. Durr is easy to strip when on her way up to the hoop. Ball gets huge. Also, she has a tendency to dribble high right handed on the move. What’s the violation call when a player has a high dribble?I like your first sentence is a great way to start here.
Not sure I can be the one to give you the most insight as I am a tad upset with overall officiating in the game in general. I will say one of the best chuckles I got out of the tourney was your last game. Not sure who but on a breakaway layup for the Cards the announcers were gushing on a great strip by Miss St player and the replay showed nothing but all upper arm down to the lower arm and across the back of the hand before reaching the ball which the aggressive foul forced out. No call.
Not happy with 6 trips to the line for UConn and 23 for ND but I will not say that was the game. We did turn the ball over two times more than them but lead all other statistical categories. Back to the officials I do find it hard to understand how a moving pick is never called and is a constant in the woman's game. That and my favorite pet peeve the last two minutes of a game is called different than the previous 38. There is an intentional foul rule and it is never called. You see officials actually anticipate blowing the whistle because they are aware of the situation. Then blow the whistle because someone touched the ball handlers arm, a no call in the previous 38 minutes, but not considered intentional.
Officials are human and that can speak for itself. They are affected by personal ideology as well as a like or dislike for the crowd / team or more important the coach.
This is is related to football but an interesting observation on officials none the less.
Why refs swallow the whistle - CNN.com
Take this garbage to the ND board and stay there! Why do we let fans from other teams litter our boards and irritate our fans? I don't get it.
You provide no concrete examples. You are wrong and it would be great if you also left and never came back.
This is a perfect example of the kind of visibility and self-review that officiating in the women's game (both college and pro) seems to lack. I mean, the officiating bodies themselves must be doing some kind of work behind the scenes, but how would we know?
Probably, the truth of how bad the Refs were is in the middle as it's really hard to not let our own status as fans influence us somewhat. Objectively, I'll say ND was more aggressive on offense and defense and I can see them getting a few more calls. That being said, they are just as aggressive defensively, and there is no way that UCONN should have only been to the line 6 times.
I respect everyone's right to have their opinions, and we all certainly have them
Refs are human and I get they make mistakes, but some mistakes just can't be made, such as the fourth foul on Samuelson. It was a game changer. Even though UCONN was ahead at the time, I knew the game was now lost as it was clear Samuelson would now be a turnstile for fear of picking up number 5. It was especially frustrating because, as someone mentioned it above, ND was getting the calls (all weekend) then they would jump into players (and in Samuelson's case, was established in their position, not jumping, and had her arms straight up). That should have been a no call.
I do feel ND got many favorable calls, and when they win games by 2 and 3 points respectively, the officiating did influence the result. But I will also give credit where credit is due. Despite the hostile officiating towards them, UCONN and MS still could have won if they made one more shot and turned the ball over a couple fewer times. They didn't. ND did hit the shots at the end of each game to win it and did come back from double-digit deficits each game. They did get done what the other teams had a chance to do but didn't.
You are still wrong and still need to go away. Provide examples of intentional fouls. You can't make a blanket statement like you did because it isn't always true. In a close game there are few to no intentional fouls. And, again, the bigger problem is not what was called on UConn but what wasn't called on ND...ALL GAME. The refs were biased and bad. PERIOD. END OF STORY. You are wrong, always have been wrong, always will be wrong.
