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Yes, the official made a great call. It was the right call. Where does the idea that the whistle should be swallowed at the end of games. Why should an official decide when to make fouls calls and when not. A non call impacts the game as much as a call does. Should the official swallow the whistle if Paige would have been fouled on her last shot had the call on Edwards not been made. Whats the difference? I have seen officials ignore an obvious shooting foul on a defender at the end of games just because they are intimidated into not making a call that might turn out to be wrong.Paige showed how to lose gracefully in the post game press conference, something that is beyond many of the posters here. The slow-mo video clearly shows Aaliyah moving. The fact that the ref saw it and called it is, to me, a sign that the officials are not nearly as bad as fans make them out to be. I see it as a gutsy call. It was a great tourney run by an undermanned UConn team, one of the best in the 30 year I've followed them. Accepting loss as part of the game is very hard for many here.
As too the Uconn fans being better than that, while the once definately were, now it questionable. Its easly to be objective while winning. The real test comes when the outcome does not go your way. This type of response even after seeing the slow mo replay does not reflect well on what I suspect is the rest of the UConn fans