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Message: [QUOTE="KnightBridgeAZ, post: 2696340, member: 591"] If you are talking to me - I bring up the PAC because I am a Rutgers / Arizona fan, and have for 6 years only attended (a limited number, due to the wife's health) Arizona games, where this past season we had floor seats. Prior to that, we attended Rutgers games home and away for 15 years. As someone who doesn't get the PAC12 network due to DirecTV, and watches almost all the games on "regular" TV, I can't vouch for games across the entire PAC or what happened historically. I can only say that, in the games I have attended over the last 6 years, much more physicality is allowed on the court than was ever allowed in the oBE. High physicality and a lot of touch fouls, based on what I see. Now, I will admit, since Rutgers was physical, and perceived as even more physical than they were, perhaps ref's called it especially tight in RU games. I can only say that there are numerous instances I have seen at Arizona where RU would have been called for a foul. I don't think refereeing is particularly good, and have written, in past threads, about some of the issues I perceive. I also posted in a previous thread that I think the tendency is to call fewer fouls in the Final Four and to allow a more physical game than would be allowed in season. And I'm not a big fan of announcing errors by officiating crews unless they are correctable - which, sadly, they are not. My 2 biggest complaints are one "error" and one "poor judgement" - 1 - Clockgate at Tennessee 2 - Melissa Barlow at Rutgers vs. Stanford where she (correctly, technically) called a foul on RU for a reach in with less than a second left in the game and RU up by 1. My issue being, the reach in occurred as the Stanford player was pinned to the side-line in front of the RU bench, completely incapable of scoring. If the player had not reached in, RU would have won. While I believe in consistency, and don't really want things to be done differently at the end of the game, I hate where referees directly affect the result by something they do (as opposed to don't do). [/QUOTE]

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