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storrsroars said:
That was an egregious ref error that cost two points. I think any coach with a pulse probably gets T'd up there.
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Yeah because costing your team another two points is the optimal response.
 
kobe said:
Yeah because costing your team another two points is the optimal response.
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He was 100% correct in being pissed. That was already a 4 point swing (missed two + Gonzaga 2 on the other end, but the T added two more points...and that folks is your ball game).
 
Travelman32 said:
He was 100% correct in being pissed. That was already a 4 point swing (missed two + Gonzaga 2 on the other end, but the T added two more points...and that folks is your ball game).
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Not sure why college basketball coaches (including our guy Mick) are given a total free pass for acting like total loons on the sideline. Collins literally leapt a foot onto the court. It was a bad call, they were still only down what 4 or 5 points? Keep it moving.
 
kobe said:
Not sure why college basketball coaches (including our guy Mick) are given a total free pass for acting like total loons on the sideline. Collins literally leapt a foot onto the court. It was a bad call, they were still only down what 4 or 5 points? Keep it moving.
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The biggest issue with college ball is there are totally different (and very clearly so) standards depending on coach. Coach K does the very same once or twice a game and almost never, if ever, gets called. But you do that once as an up and coming coach, especially vs. the wrong team (Gonzaga is the non P5 darling) and *poof* t'ed up. That was so not a T. The guy was right. Anyone with two eyes regardless of sight (20/20 or 20/200 could see that was a hand through the hoop. You let THAT go and you basically make yourself an open target for the rest of your career for horrible calls. One of the worst calls I have seen all year.
 
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Would love for St. Mary's to win this after last weeks ESPN/Bill Walton Pac 12 infomerical and non stop smearing of Gonzaga's league as "the little sister of the poor" while hyping the "Conference of Champions."

And as I say this St. Mary's best player picks up his 4th.
 
Horatio said:
Horrible foul call on #22 SM. Refs are terrible
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This is the worst officiated tournament I've ever seen. If they're getting 1/2 the calls right it's a stretch. That was a game changing phantom foul. But I've lost count of all the phony calls.
 
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gtcam said:
Xavier is a really good team who lost their PG in January - if he was still playing, they would have been top 10 - easy
Xavier and Butler are probably the most disciplined teams on both sides of the ball in the tourney
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Their PG will be a 1st rounder at one point. And Myles Davis left after a few games. He scored double digits 2 years in a row. We recruited this kid what felt like 9 years ago. Mack is just a helluva coach. He squeezes everything he can out of each individual. Bloomfield product Tyrique Jones had a nice game with 13 points. He hasn't been a huge impact throughout the season but it pains me to see undersized bigs who "weren't good enough" for UCONN to excel during the tournament.
 
ASweet3781 said:
Zags lucky it was Northwestern as their 2nd round opponent and not a program that's been there like Wisconsin or they'd probably have been toast. The last 10 mins were their usual deer in headlight postseason looks.
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I don't know why Few stays at Gonzaga. He is playing 5 on 8 every 2nd and 3rd round game every tournament, where he wouldn't be having that problem if he was at Washington, for example. They non-P5 schools should threaten to bolt and hold their own tournament, because all they are doing by staying in the dance is validating the biased officiating.

The refs stopped calling fouls on Northwestern with 10 minutes left unless it was a felony. The fact that the refs missed a basket interference does not start to compensate for about 10 fouls that should have been called on Northwestern in the last 10 minutes.
 
Jaker said:
the Aussie is good for the Gaels
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Which one?

Joking, obviously you mean Landale. Stud, and only a JR. But half their rotation are Aussies. Quite the connect Bennett has. Delly and Patty Mills also starred at St. Marys.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
They non-P5 schools should threaten to bolt and hold their own tournament, because all they are doing by staying in the dance is validating the biased officiating.
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This can not be a real idea.
 
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This foul call on St. Mary's is another example of the insane bias. They gave Arizona an and-1 on a play that should have resulted in the at least a Flagrant 2 on Arizona.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
I don't know why Few stays at Gonzaga. He is playing 5 on 8 every 2nd and 3rd round game every tournament, where he wouldn't be having that problem if he was at Washington, for example. They non-P5 schools should threaten to bolt and hold their own tournament, because all they are doing by staying in the dance is validating the biased officiating.

The refs stopped calling fouls on Northwestern with 10 minutes left unless it was a felony. The fact that the refs missed a basket interference does not start to compensate for about 10 fouls that should have been called on Northwestern in the last 10 minutes.
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Bwahahaha.
 
No way does St Mary's get to challenge shot from behind and not get whistled. AZ over the back no problem. That should do it for them. Too bad.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
You are right, the non-P5 should just quietly take this until they are completely irrelevant. That is a much better plan.
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Thank you. It clearly is. What is the ideal outcome in your scenario? A crappy, tier 2 tournament that can be played on FS1 for hundreds of people to watch?

I do agree that small schools get slighted in seeding (just look at Wichita) but there is no conspiracy to officiate in favor of big schools. College refs are simply incompetent. Very, very incompetent. And for arguments sake, wouldn't it be beneficial to have more upsets over the 1st weekend? No one wants to see a Butler play in the Final 4, but no one likes to see the 1st weekend go chalk either.
 
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walker11 said:
Thank you. It clearly is. What is the ideal outcome in your scenario? A crappy, tier 2 tournament that can be played on FS1 for hundreds of people to watch?

I do agree that small schools get slighted in seeding (just look at Wichita) but there is no conspiracy to officiate in favor of big schools. College refs are simply incompetent. Very, very incompetent. And for arguments sake, wouldn't it be beneficial to have more upsets over the 1st weekend? No one wants to see a Butler play in the Final 4, but no one likes to see the 1st weekend go chalk either.
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I think college refs are excellent actually, I just think there is favoritism towards the big conference, probably because all the refs want to work big conference games. You don't have these problems in P5 vs. P5 games like you do in P5 vs. non-P5 games. It is not a coincidence.
 
Some of the ACC hype is based on the record in the past couple of tournaments, which is, I believe, 38-12 (in 2015 and 2016 together).

I think probably this year's UVA and ND teams were not as good as in the past couple of years. FSU was seriously over-seeded.
 
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