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HuskyNan said:
Doubt it. ESPN picks a play or player to focus on each season. How many times did we see Arike hit the game winning shot? Anyone but UConn and ND fans remember it now?
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They still show Arike's game winning shot to this day. It was on last nights intro before the game on ESPN.
 
I tried to catch as much of the media reaction to the non-call as I could this morning. It was very easy to tell who watched the game and who just watched the super-slo-mo replay of those last five seconds over and over again (probably on their cellphones). To put it as simply as possible, if they’d called a foul on that play it would’ve been completely inconsistent with how the previous 39:55 had been called. Easy to take those five seconds into the lab and diagnose a foul, but if it had been called and UConn lost, I think the dominant opinion among those who watched the game would’ve been that UConn got jobbed.
 
I suppose Baylor fans and all have a right to be upset by the "call", but the thing that goads me most is that all the UFC ninja mugging and the bear hugging and mauling that those Baylor women were giving Paige, CW and UConn were completely fine until the "Call". Had they had been complaining about ref calls all along, they wouldn't come across as such hypocrites. I meant the foul calls during the first half was something like 11-2 in Baylor's favor....
 
UcMiami said:
When I say, 'let them play' about the refs, I am referring to the games where they are constantly calling touch fouls 30 feet from the basket. There are games where one team or both teams decide to play a rugby style of hard contact at all times and that kind of play is both dangerous and leads to really ugly basketball. Officials can sometimes rein that in with some decisive early foul calls, but not always.

I never want officials to ignore the kind of grabbing and swatting that prevents players from getting a shot off. Or the grabbing and clutching that allows free movement of players around the court.

I think this tournament has had a number of games where the 'let them play' attitude of the refs was really borderline or went over the line. I saw that Tara complained after I think their second round game (which I didn't watch.) One of the problems for the NCAA women is they need 46 games reffed in 4 days and you get a wide range of officials working. I don't think they even have 50 really good experienced refs, which is why during the season when the 'important' games are more spaced out you see the same faces over and over.
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I agree. Rarely though when people say "let 'em play" do they mean touch fouls on the perimeter. Just sayin'.
 
topogigio said:
It's totally out of control today, social media trolls, sports writers, network announcers with the whining and complaining of the "no foul" call. Didn't see or hear the same peanut gallery when TAMU won their first two tournament games by questionable officiating. Just because everyone wants to take down the Huskies, the bandwagon is overflowing. LaBron James, of all people, who gets more calls or no calls going his way, has the audacity to pipe in his two worthless cents. Debbie Antonelli was another one spewing nonsense during the Indiana/Arizona game! Baylor, their coach, and most of their team, displayed a level of poor sportsmanship which hurts the game! It's part of the game folks, get over it!
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I have not see anyone mention the no call just before when CW took it to the basket on a breakaway and was fouled TWICE before putting it in with the ref right there. Should have been an 'and one'. But -no call.
 
As much as I intensely disliked Tennessee back in the day, it's nothing compared to Baylor. I loathe them. But they're still the third best team in the country in my view.
 
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Orangutan said:
LeBron and UConn women's basketball both seem to draw an irrational amount of ire from fans...

If only there was some obvious common bond...
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Except there isn't. You're thinking of MJ or Bill Russell, perhaps
 
HuskyNan said:
Doubt it. ESPN picks a play or player to focus on each season. How many times did we see Arike hit the game winning shot? Anyone but UConn and ND fans remember it now?
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They replayed that, but not the endless loop of the uncalled foul on Morgan William that allowed ND to win the NC. The 2018 FF 3 games, all badly one sided officiated.
 
#1florida said:
It is frustrating, people just want Uconn to lose, and it appears NCAA, and ESPN want anybody but Uconn. But, I like your thoughts, and lets enjoy Uconn and to hell with the Haters.
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Yep. And the stupid thing this year is you know they all would rather follow how Paige does in the tournament than report on anything Baylor does.
 
Deadrody said:
Except there isn't. You're thinking of MJ or Bill Russell, perhaps
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I imagine the online discourse around them would also have been insufferable had they played in the social media age.
 
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My tweet this morning:

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fomalhaut said:
As much as I intensely disliked Tennessee back in the day, it's nothing compared to Baylor. I loathe them. But they're still the third best team in the country in my view.
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But how good would they actually be if they didn't use their physicality to win games? UCONN rarely (unless provoked) ever uses that to win! We just play good basketball!
 
Love the hate, wear it like a badge of honor. As for the game itself

1) yes it was a physical game, yes they let Baylor play physical with us a game long, yes they missed calls against Baylor, let them cry and rejoice in their tears

2) why is nobody talking about the pathetic execution of offense by Baylor on the last possession. Carrington pounded the ball into the ground going nowhere, an abysmal failure. Then she dribbles into a double team of taller defensive players and wants to get bailed out on a pathetically weak fade away. Get outta here with that poppycock

3) The worst call of the game had to be when the Baylor defensive player was standing with both feet two feet inside the restrictive area, and they called a charge. Are you kidding me? ESPN didn't even show the replay, that would have been a crime

GO HUSKIES, I love watching this team
 
willie99 said:
3) The worst call of the game had to be when the Baylor defensive player was standing with both feet two feet inside the restrictive area, and they called a charge. Are you kidding me? ESPN didn't even show the replay, that would have been a crime
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And the worst part is, Griffin was hacked on the arm before she even reached the defender inside the arc. That was an AWFUL call. Surpassed only by the phantom push just before the end of the game on Carrington
 
Hayven said:
This will follow UConn until Paige graduates unfortunately. Especially if they win the championship this year. It will be replayed at every Sweet 16, Elite 8, and Final Four for the next three years, with “they were lucky” sentiments
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At least we won’t gave to see Morgan Williams shot anymore
 
huskeynut said:
A lot of envy and jealousy going down. McGraw's Bench and Volnation are in overdrive. Its safe to say we're back.

UConn is bad for women's basketball.
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Didn’t know we left
 
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topogigio said:
It's totally out of control today, social media trolls, sports writers, network announcers with the whining and complaining of the "no foul" call. Didn't see or hear the same peanut gallery when TAMU won their first two tournament games by questionable officiating. Just because everyone wants to take down the Huskies, the bandwagon is overflowing. LaBron James, of all people, who gets more calls or no calls going his way, has the audacity to pipe in his two worthless cents. Debbie Antonelli was another one spewing nonsense during the Indiana/Arizona game! Baylor, their coach, and most of their team, displayed a level of poor sportsmanship which hurts the game! It's part of the game folks, get over it!
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No. If we get over it, it will continue. We need to speak out against unsportsmanlike conduct. That's the problem with the world. People refusing to speak out / up when they see something that's wrong. "For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing." - Simon Wiesenthal
 
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