UConn vs So Carolina game thread

[hoophuskee]

Omg the announcing was awful. Didn’t call the game, obviously biased and while I love Lobo, I feel like she tries so much to be unbiased that she doesn’t always call it like she should. Does anyone else agree?

I don't know.

But I think she has "low post bias."

 

[2Husky]

I would give Wilson 1 block maybe 2 but the rest were clearly fouls. Damn that girl gets all the calls.

Don't know if it was just the home whistle, but seems to be called for at most 1 of every 3 fouls she commits, and her defender gets called for 3 fouls for everyone that is actually committed

 

[Mlb0814]

She did have 6 blocks but on at least 3 she fouled the shooter and the refs "missed" it.

Yup and Lou had more fouls tonight than we’ve seen all season. Now we’re they all fouls? Not really...

 

[UConnCat]

I would give Wilson 1 block maybe 2 but the rest were clearly fouls. Damn that girl gets all the calls.

 

[JordyG]

 

[Padutch5]

Wilson was 4-18 from the floor! Whut? I knew I saw her miss a bunch of shots, but holy cow. If not for FTs....

edited--she did have 16 rebounds and 6 blocks

How many of those rebounds were her own missed shots?

 

[Kaizen]

Glad we are not the only people feel the refs suck tonight...

 

[Padutch5]

Dee Kantner is really the only decent referee in the women's game. She is human and makes mistakes, but she is legit relative to others I have seen.

You have to be kidding. She has been anti UCONN as long as I remember. The team and Geno must cringe ever time they see her on the schedule. She has absolutely no consistency in her calls.

 

[jcoton56]

Carl nailed it, Wilson is the single most protected player in WCBB since Diggins period. The officiating was way worse than the broadcasting. It was horrible, obvious and embarassing.

 

[JordyG]

Glad we are not the only people feel the refs suck tonight...

And yet as I always say, any sufficiently good enough team overcomes such obstacles. Adjusts to how the calls are going to go, and moves on. To me whether the refereeing was good, bad, or atrocious is irrelevant. Were you good enough to beat the team despite the crowd, the atmosphere, lack of your point guard in the second half, center on the bench, second center playing no so good, bad refs, bad hair, bad wifi. So what? Yesyesyesyesyes. This is UConn.

 

[donalddoowop]

UCONN just had a 34 point lead on the defending National Champions and although they got very little from Z and Dangerfield offensively, they won the game by more than 20 points. Still people are finding little things to whine and complain about. That's too bad. I believe if someone had told BY'ers before the game that UCONN would win by more than 20 points most would have said yes, we will take that. Well, they won by that much and still the complaints continue. I'm a UCONN fan but, after a game like tonight, I have nothing but good things to say. I wish we had a team in St. Louis that was in the top 50. Just saying.

 

[JordyG]

UCONN just had a 34 point lead on the defending National Champions and although they got very little from Z and Dangerfield offensively, they won the game by more than 20 points. Still people are finding little things to whine and complain about. That's too bad. I believe if someone had told BY'ers before the game that UCONN would win by more than 20 points most would have said yes, we will take that. Well, they won by that much and still the complaints continue. I'm a UCONN fan but, after a game like tonight, I have nothing but good things to say. I wish we had a team in St. Louis that was in the top 50. Just saying.

+10.

 

[housekeys]

You have to be kidding. She has been anti UCONN as long as I remember. The team and Geno must cringe ever time they see her on the schedule. She has absolutely no consistency in her calls.

Baloney. She is anti-UConn? Really? So if all the calls went UConn's way, she is a good ref? I have seen other schools say exactly the same thing. "She is anti-bla-bla-bla". Well guess what? Individually you fans are all "right". Collectively you are all "wrong", because in that case, she is being consistent. Your only argument is that she is consistently poor. I can accept that. I have a different opinion, however, because I value that kind of consistency in officiating.

 

[HoopsFan21]

That call on out of bounds off Lou was BS even in real time it was obvious. So were some of the calls on UConn on the defensive end. I'm surprised the disparity was only 17-14.

 

[JordyG]

Dawn's postgame here:

 

[JordyG]

Players presser for SCar:

 

[HoopsFan21]

I like the rooster sound they play at the beginning of those videos.

 

[01Neaggrad02]

Players presser for SCar:

Wow... Aja is totally disrespectful. She gave little to no credit to UCONN... She is very arrogant

 

[01Neaggrad02]

Baloney. She is anti-UConn? Really? So if all the calls went UConn's way, she is a good ref? I have seen other schools say exactly the same thing. "She is anti-bla-bla-bla". Well guess what? Individually you fans are all "right". Collectively you are all "wrong", because in that case, she is being consistent. Your only argument is that she is consistently poor. I can accept that. I have a different opinion, however, because I value that kind of consistency in officiating.

Agree to disagree... She is pretty anti-UCONN and she is pretty bad.

 

[BigBird]

I tried to help but you didn't want to listen

You sound like Mrs. BigBird.

 

[Zinethar]

well actually I would not make more puts even if the hole was 5 times bigger . Geno once said he wished the women played with the men's ball as it bounced of the rim truer and his team seemed to shoot it equally well when they have used the men's ball.

 

[SVCBeercats]

How many of those rebounds were her own missed shots?

Your statement reminds me of Geno talking about all of the offensive rebounds Tina Charles was getting back in the day.

 

[RSHERMVIKES]

If she's the best, we are in trouble.

MilfordHusky- - - There are no good WBB referees! ZERO! They wouldn't know a BB game from a Junior HS Soccer match!
Over-rated and under-performance game after game after game! It's unbelievable they get $600.00+ a game for incompetence!
I watched the 2nd 1/2 of Miss St. vs MO and bodies were flying all over, collisions and no calls! 1/3 of the players should have fouled out.
I can understand some contact, but when 2 players collide, both fall down and no call is made something isn't kosher!
And the biggest offenders are the ones with the biggest reps. They should have retired 5 years ago!
The WNBA, unbelievably, is much worse than WCBB!

 

[RSHERMVIKES]

They should have a statistic for officials that tallies the number of calls they make in favor of the home team vs the guest team. I do not have such statistics. My guess is that Dee is more likely to average close to 50%, especially relative to the rest of the other officials I have seen. I would love to see such a statistic because I can be proven wrong. Otherwise it is MHO.

housekeys- - -Check out the wbbstate.com site, (Women's BB State.com). Check right side column in purple 2nd from the bottom OFFICIALS!
It has all sorts of ref stats, most prove my point that WBB refs stink! How many games a week they call, # of fouls called, etc.

 

[rugbymate]

Wow... Aja is totally disrespectful. She gave little to no credit to UCONN... She is very arrogant

Not sure which interview you watched but i thought she gave a very balanced interview and referred to UCONN as great twice and was deferential to their program

 

[Zinethar]

Random thoughts from tonight's game: Yes national announcers will never be as good as your teams own. I bet if you told the UConn bench players they would all get to play in tonight's game - some for significant minutes - they would not have believed you. First half when the intensity level was up UConn played as good as I've seen all year.In my view good refs are not noticed in a game - they control the action, call real fouls, don't affect the outcome, let the players play because it is under control, and rarely have to call a technical. WNBA teams pretty much know what is available and what they need and are not that easy to deceive. And lastly thanks to my kids for getting me fantastic UConn t-shirts to wear during the game! They are working .

 

[DefenseBB]

This game is only going to cause more grief for Dawn and A’ja as with UConn dominating them, people will bring up that SC was lucky to play MSU last year...it will get especially loud if they win on Monday...

 

[MilfordHusky]

MilfordHusky- - - There are no good WBB referees! ZERO! They wouldn't know a BB game from a Junior HS Soccer match!
Over-rated and under-performance game after game after game! It's unbelievable they get $600.00+ a game for incompetence!
I watched the 2nd 1/2 of Miss St. vs MO and bodies were flying all over, collisions and no calls! 1/3 of the players should have fouled out.
I can understand some contact, but when 2 players collide, both fall down and no call is made something isn't kosher!
And the biggest offenders are the ones with the biggest reps. They should have retired 5 years ago!
The WNBA, unbelievably, is much worse than WCBB!

I agree that reffing is not great and is even worse in the WNBA.

 

[MSGRET]

as I watch the ladies continue to kill it from 3 pt range, I started thinking to myself. The ball women use has a smaller circumference than men's. Does anybody now why women don't use a rim with a smaller diameter? I was thinking if you take the best women's shooter compared to the best men's shooter if you could really measure an apples to apples comparison because the smaller size ball with the same sized rim seems to give more margin for error with a women's ball. Had me thinking what the difference in shooting percentage would be for women in A vs. B.

I thought this game would be way closer, but instead my mind started to wander as I watch and the ladies pull further away and for some reason remembered back to middle and high school when we used to have a fundraiser boys vs girls game and I remembered I always shot much better with the women's ball

The woman's ball is the same size as the FIBA international basketball for all to include the men's game. That is why the USA men's basketball team has to get used to it for International games.

 

[SCGamecock]

This game is only going to cause more grief for Dawn and A’ja as with UConn dominating them, people will bring up that SC was lucky to play MSU last year...it will get especially loud if they win on Monday...

I’ll never understand this argument though because UConn didn’t beat last year’s team tonight. They beat a significantly less experienced/talented squad. Not even close to last year’s team in terms of talent level really...

I saw this game result coming from 100 Miles away... SC lost too much last year and had too many important players for this year’s team sitting on the bench. They just don’t have it. The rosters aren’t comparable.

Coming into the season I didn’t think the disparity was that bad but it’s glaringly obvious after tonight. SC is not at the point where they reload on talent.. this looks like a roster that needs rebuilding and Dawn needs to consider that when she schedules teams next year because it’s not going to get any easier once they lose A’ja. You want to schedule good teams of course, but I don’t think getting your brains bashed in by 25 points helps your team’s confidence (and I can’t imagine it helps recruiting when it happens primetime on National TV)... and tonight won’t be the last time it happens if she doesn’t allow her roster to “grow up” a little bit next year. Lol, it sounds weird to say, but she might need to take a page out of Mulkey’s book!

What a disappointing showing by the Gamecocks...