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Message: [QUOTE="BBallF, post: 4275704, member: 10435"] I don't agree that everything is wrapped up. Something else needs to be said. I agree with the idea of grace and dignity but I also agree with the concept of enforcing the rules of the game equitably and as they are written. Until the NCAA gets officials that will enforce the rules of basketball and blow their whistles, and not act at times like AAU referees, both in the men's and women's games, regarding freedom of movement, hand checking, pushing, and walking it will be the bigger and more physical team that will prevail. This was the least officiated NCAA finals game, men or women, I can ever recall seeing. South Carolina may be the most physical team in the country and for them to have 11 total fouls to our 21, or an average of 2.6 per 10 minute quarter is a joke. If you go back and look at this game closely you will see several uncalled fouls by Boston alone. When Evina went up that one time and they repeated it, you could see an obvious body foul on the leg and arm. The play by play announcer, who needs to go back to basketball school, didn't recognize it, which showed me where the game has now gone, but the refs are trained supposedly to know better. We lost that game. The refs didn't cause it but they were putrid and emblematic of the gender inequity in the sport based upon the quality of the officials in the women's game as compared to the men's games which was apparent all year. We didn't even have our B game tonight. Azzi was sick, CW was shut down or just exhausted, Evina came to play but got hurt and others just didn't have it. We were generally tired and lacking energy. It wasn't voluntary. We played 3 intense games in 6 days with a day of travel in between. You can get by for one game. The second one on one day's rest, will get you. SC had an easier Semis game and an extra day rest before. The men get 5 full days in between the E8 and the FF not 3 like us. We were flat. Even so, with some obvious calls, it may have been closer but probably not enough. I just have a real problem with the women's game evolving into a smaller version of the men's game and I see it coming. It's what you will get unless the feckless NCAA either enforces the rules or changes them. I would recommend to everyone Jay Bilas' recent critique of men's college basketball. Parts of it, especially about the restriction of movement, apply equally to our game. I love this team too, am incredibly proud to be a fan, and because of that I always also want our women to be treated fairly. They were not tonight. I'm sorry but that needs to be said also. Would it have effected the outcome? I think not. But our team deserved a well officiated game. They got nothing of the sort. [/QUOTE]

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