The fix is in

[superjohn]

SMU was just bent over. Really starting to like college hoops less and less, can't trust anything about the sport anymore.

 

[minidarren]

Anyone who says otherwise is a fool.

 

[Bryan Lord]

Why no official review?

 

[Leebo]

Spanarkel thinks the shot might have been a curveball apparently.

 

[Walker11]

Yea, I'm going with incompetence on this one. I hated the call but I have yet to see a definite angle that clearly shows an airball.

 

[uconnisgood]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CAfXjOjUQAEWbnX.jpg

 

[minidarren]

Announcers said that it couldn't be reviewed but also said it was goaltending. They are most likely wrong on both accounts.

 

[shabazketball]

too many turnovers, SMU let their lead slip too quickly
classic AAC basketball....I hoped SMU would win to get our league some respect....

 

[ASweet3781]

Are they ever going to come back from commercial on TruTV to comment about this ending?

 

[businesslawyer]

Anyone who says otherwise is a fool.

I'm a fool. I think it was a bad call. Bad calls happen all the time. The thought that refs are told to fix games and none of them ever goes public with it (knowing that if someone else goes public with it they go to jail) is absurd.

 

[ASweet3781]

The crew on set thinks it was the wrong call.

 

[superjohn]

Ball had no chance of going in and it wasn't over the cylinder. SMU left out of the tournament last year, way under seeded this year and then bent over a third time. Larry Brown deserves more goshdarn respect and I feel terribly for those players and the fanbase.

 

[Bryan Lord]

Wish the ncaa Guy had some balls to admit they were wrong.

 

[superjohn]

Wish the ncaa Guy had some balls to admit they were wrong.

That will never happen, it's always toe the company line and don't create any waves.

 

[Bryan Lord]

At least the studio guys were pretty honest. They let the NCAA official guy off the hook though.

 

[minidarren]

I'm a fool. I think it was a bad call. Bad calls happen all the time. The thought that refs are told to fix games and none of them ever goes public with it (knowing that if someone else goes public with it they go to jail) is absurd.

That call was well beyond bad. And I'm not certain that refs are told to put the fix in, but damn it certainly is suspicious at times. There was a blatant travel that they missed on UCLA as well when one of their players went sliding along the floor with a ball in their hand.

 

[lanieer]

The old standard answer " Well I can't really tell" right but the ref thirty feet on the other end could see better than all the close ups. SMU was robbed.

 

[tzznandrew]

Seriously. Admit you are wrong.

Just say: "In the heat of the moment refs make calls. Most times they are right. This was one of the rare times it was wrong. Unfortunately we can't review goaltending. I'm sure ______ feels awful that he got the call wrong and influenced the end of the game. But he's got a hard job, and we all make mistakes in the moment."

 

[lanieer]

Does anyone know who the ref that made the call thirty feet on the half court line is?

 

[zls44]

If he doesn't touch the ball, it's GOING to hit the rim. That is a lock-on correct call. You can't judge a ball that's gonna hit the rim isn't going to go in- not with how insane that game was ending.


It stinks for the AAC, but they got that call right.

 

[tzznandrew]

If he doesn't touch the ball, it's GOING to hit the rim. That is a lock-on correct call. You can't judge a ball that's gonna hit the rim isn't going to go in- not with how insane that game was ending.


It stinks for the AAC, but they got that call right.

Nope. It wasn't.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CAfXjOjUQAEWbnX.jpg

(are we not allowed to do pictures anymore?)

 

[uconngb]

Who cares?? We got an extended post game interview w Allie Laforce (and some other guy...Alford somebody?). She's smoking....that's what this year's NCAA means to me

 

[minidarren]

If he doesn't touch the ball, it's GOING to hit the rim. That is a lock-on correct call. You can't judge a ball that's gonna hit the rim isn't going to go in- not with how insane that game was ending.

It stinks for the AAC, but they got that call right.

You and Charles agree. And might be the only ones on this planet that do.

 

[Fishy]

It had no chance of going in - it had passed the cylinder and would have had to defy physics, gravity and everything in explored science to go in.

It was a bad call.

 

[zls44]

From Gottlieb: