Get Us Out of This God-Forsaken Conference

[campcalhoun2009]

Xavier was in the bonus at 14 min, in the double bonus at 11 min. They shot 14 FTs in the second half before we shot one. They shot 20 more free throws than us in a blowout.

This is not sustainable. This conference is an absolute travesty.

The Big East is just terrible basketball. Terrible officiating. It’s not even the Big East anymore really. Why are we playing Catholic schools from Nebraska and Ohio.

Save us AD David Benedict

 

[FfldCntyFan]

My only comment is that for very long stretches it appeared the rule for calling anything on X was "no blood, no foul".

 

[Purple Stein]

For now we're stuck where we are. Hopefully HC JC will make football attractive enough to get us somewhere else.

In the meantime, let's beat the crap out of Georgetown tonight.

 

[jostar1]

Joe Arruda@joearruda9
UConn men’s basketball + football beat writer
@hartfordcourant

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Can someone explain the massive ref conspiracy against UConn?

 

[UConnTrumbull]

Yesterday I felt like the officials were essentially trying to keep it from being a 30 point blow out so they gave X about 10 free points from the line. The most egregious call was early in the game where Silas got called for his second foul on a clear held ball.

Only, at most, 2 more games this year with these clowns in the zebra shirts.

 

[CL82]

Only, at most, 2 more games this year with these clowns in the zebra shirts.

Not necessarily.

 

[Ha Who]

I didn’t know we were trying to exit

 

[Ha Who]

Xavier was in the bonus at 14 min, in the double bonus at 11 min. They shot 14 FTs in the second half before we shot one. They shot 20 more free throws than us in a blowout.

This is not sustainable. This conference is an absolute travesty.

The Big East is just terrible basketball. Terrible officiating. It’s not even the Big East anymore really. Why are we playing Catholic schools from Nebraska and Ohio.

Save us AD David Benedict

 

[freescooter]

Yesterday I felt like the officials were essentially trying to keep it from being a 30 point blow out so they gave X about 10 free points from the line. The most egregious call was early in the game where Silas got called for his second foul on a clear held ball.

Only, at most, 2 more games this year with these clowns in the zebra shirts.

I was driving last night and heard an interview with the ex ProJo guy who is now does a NBE blog. He was talking about officiating in the league vs the NCAA and how other refs don’t allow the “the kind of defense they play in the Big East”. The it hurts a lot of teams but might help UConn. Though he did caution that our lack of depth could be an issue if we try to play NBE defense.

 

[freescooter]

Can someone explain the massive ref conspiracy against UConn?

it is not a conspiracy. It is a decision to market the league as rough, tough, thuggish play conference. UCONN plays defense like that too. You almost have to, but not offense. So we get these weird results.