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[QUOTE="Orangutan, post: 2672766, member: 4946"]
Of course, I'm biased.  Never said I wasn't.  Me being biased doesn't preclude you from being biased, too.

What would you like me to say about the reffing of other games?  There were missed calls in all the games.  It looks to me like McCowan clobbered Hines-Allen in the ending sequence of Miss St.-Louisville.  Upon further review, I think Mabrey's play on William was not a foul.  But they did miss a foul by Shepard on McCowan on the possession immediately after Mabrey's 3.  That had a big impact because McCowan was called for a foul going for the loose ball and picked up her 4th foul.  Should have been on the line instead and if she makes both it's a two-possession game again.

I think you can point to many discrete instances of missed calls in all of the Final Four games.  I just resist the idea the because ND got more free throws than UConn the refereeing was biased QED.  Maybe that's a bit of a strawman but I feel like I've seen posters (in other threads as well as this one) implying that.

Frankly, I think the refereeing was incompetent but no more incompetent than usual by WCBB standards.  This time it may have happened to favor ND.  So it goes.  I'm obviously not mad about it because my team won.  That's usually how these things work.
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