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Message: [QUOTE="housekeys, post: 5149026, member: 2379"] Concerning the officials, there is rarely a perfectly called game. Understandable. But there are "poorly" officiated games, like last night and badly officiated games, like against Memphis in Maui. I can accept the former but I will b*tch endlessly about the other. For example, you have UConn defenders grab and release a Xavier player and visa versa. Sometimes they whistle against UConn, sometimes they don't. Same with Xavier, sometimes they whistle against them, sometimes they don't. Both fans will complain. Some fans conclude poor officiating, others brush it off because of consistency. But there is no FT or foul call discrepancy to speak of. The game will be close (it was last night) and any discrepancy in fouls was reasonably close. THAT is not what happened in Maui. The games played out similarly. Both close and in OT. Both high scoring, etc. But there was a clear and significant discrepancy in FTA. Using the above example, it was as if (again, just an example) all UConn grab and holds were whistled, but few of the Memphis grabs were whistled. That is a horribly officiated game, regardless of outcome. [/QUOTE]