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Message: [QUOTE="ocoandasoc, post: 2511959, member: 3032"] Watch the replay. It's still up on ESPN's web site. Porter and Wilson walked into each other. One of the replay angles shows that clearly. (Surprise, that's not the angle the SC media showed!) Porter's skull went into Wilson's teeth. Totally accidental. (And clarify for me how it could have been deliberate if Porter didn't intend to do it?) Get over it. Then review Wilson's five fouls and tell me which one was a bad call? BTW, in case you hadn't noticed, Wilson and her teammates play a physical game as well. Watch the SC fouls in the last 90 seconds of the game -- some are a lot rougher than required and could easily have been called intentional. Dawn is a great coach, but she has a mouth like a sailor and is on the officials constantly. There are not that many officiating teams that are assigned to the big tv games, and Dawn has worn a bunch of them out. (And she knows it, which is why she tries to influence who gets assigned to her games.) So, yeah, these refs probably come in with a bit of a short fuse -- but whose fault is that? When she sat motionless on the bench after Wilson's fifth foul she was simply showing up the refs. They had had enough at that point, and made the exceedingly rare call of a technical for failure to substitute in a timely manner. She was very surprised that her little stunt back-fired. I thought it was overkill, myself. But they were sending her a message. Maybe she should listen. The fouls were actually even until the last two minutes when SC started fouling on every play to try and overcome the double digit Mizzou lead. And more Missouri players fouled out than SC players. Sure, there were missed calls and poor calls along the way. But I think they broke about even. I remember when Louisville upset Baylor by employing a sagging triple-team on Griner all the Baylor fans were upset and Mulkey wound up getting fined after a review of the game didn't bear out her charges of bad officiating. It seems whenever David beats Goliath someone is there to say "No fair, he used a sling!" Yes, SC is the reigning National Champion. That and a dollar will get you a cup of coffee, but it won't -- and it shouldn't -- get your coach or star player preferential treatment by the refs. [/QUOTE]

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