They’d even say “coulda got UConn on a foul there”, truly felt like that kind of a game. “If we can find any reason to call you guys, we will. But when it’s the other team, you need to be blatantly mugged by a 2nd or 3rd person to get a call”
I believe that the play before the end of the half could have been called an offensive foul which would have been his 3rd but there is no way they were going to call that on the little turd.
Grant Hill, on at least four or five occasions, muttered “I don’t get that call” or “that could have gone the other way,” all on calls against us. But never said that it seemed that all his questions were on calls favoring Michigan (not that I would expect him to on the national TV broadcast).
100% right on the last Solo 3. Was fouled in the act both before and after he let the ball go. Should have had a chance to cut it to 3. The only defense of that non-call is that by then the refs were letting everything go, but that shouldn’t include a jump shooter being fouled.
Non-call was the right call there, but despite Michigan’s whining it was closer to a charge than a block. Reibe had position first, was in a legal guarding position and never reached in with his hands. The contact, which was pretty clearly incidental, started with Cadeau running into Reibe’s chest.
Kind of, in between how much Grant Hill and Raf (love him, but jeez) were glazing Michigan, Cadeau, and Lendeborg. A few times they were like "oof I don't know about that one. Anyway how about this Michigan squad???"
Be fair Wisky. If Tom didn’t allow this thread after last night, it would be the only website on the internet where the calls weren’t being criticized by many. And be fair to me — the original post was a question of how a ref with a history with a team could be assigned to the game. If that isn’t a fair question, ….
Cadeau also took about five steps on that play
He also pushed down a rebounder with two hands even more egregiously, in a non-basketball play. But that hook and hold was the flagrant we needed to crack down on!
Please share the evidence of UConn "stealing" the 2011 and 2014 Championships.
Preseason No. 1, postseason No. 1, and the pre-tournament favorite. That's who UConn beat in 2014. They stole a championship with an easy draw? What?
It's these kinds of fouls that were called against UConn but not Michigan.
Yes, UConn went through a gauntlet! Florida, Kentucky, Michigan St., not to mention an Iowa State team that was probably better than all 3 of those teams.
I'm going to watch it again today but know I heard at least two remarks by Raftery and (I think) Eagle at the end about the no call on the travel by (Roddy?) when he shuffled his feet, took three steps and fell.
I 100% agree, the flagrant on Alex turned into a 4-point play and it changed the entire complexity of the game. We never regained the lead after l can easily point to 20-24 points the refs cost us in this game. Completely disgusting.
I'm not saying they got an easy draw (though they did face an 8 seed in the championship game) just that they weren't expected to win it all that year or in 2011. They were a 3 seed in 2011 and a 7-seed in 2014. So it felt to me like we weren't "supposed" to win those years but we did. Something had to break right for us. I'm just saying I felt we stole those championships in the sense we caught everyone by surprise, peaked at the right time, etc. I wasn't implying we didn't earn those championships, they were just unexpected.
See my response to Inyatkin. Stole in the sense they were unexpected not that we didn't deserve to win. I feel very lucky to be a UConn fan and fortunate that we have had so much success. I recognize that even when you are good enough to win you don't always win. And occasionally it seems like you are unlikely to win but you do. In those cases I would call that stealing because we caught everyone by surprise. We came out of no where and stole it from the presumed favorites. It wasn't handed to us, we had to earn it but it felt like stealing because it was so unexpected.
Fair enough
