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Message: [QUOTE="bennyskid, post: 4834312, member: 9471"] 8. The refs found their whistles at halftime. Neither team was awarded a single free throw taken in the first half. Not.One. I sit courtside, and I assure that there was plenty of contact - Beers and Rees are no shrinking violets, and Kyei is hardly a ballerina. Both teams shot poorly. Some of those misses should have been called as fouls, and some was due to shots being altered to get away from the hands. The refs started calling fouls right away in the second half, and I would say that it was a well-reffed game from there. It helped OSU much more than UO, though. OSU went with their best perimeter defenders (Hunter, Hansford) for almost the entire half, and UO responded by telling Gray to dribble to random spots and throw junk up. They also decided to take Kyei out for most of the 4th and let Beers roam around the key unopposed. This is a long-standing weakness of Rueck's teams. Physical teams in general have always given us trouble, and when the refs swallow their whistles it compounds the grief. [/QUOTE]