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Message: [QUOTE="OldSchooler, post: 4553409, member: 11804"] About that technical foul . . . Disclaimer: I haven't watched the entire game yet, but I did watch the 3rd Q sequence surrounding the technical. The announcers seemed totally clueless as to what was happening, even after watching the replay. After the refs huddled to watch the replay, and called an offensive PF on the Xavier player and the tech on Lou, the announcers were still in the dark, thinking that Lou had been whistled for being too physical in retaliation, which was not the case. I think the tech was for what Lou SAID, not DID. (She was actually whistled after she pointed at the Xavier player in a threatening way.) But that was never explained . . . at least not during that sequence. At one point, after the refs made their decision, one of them apparently came across the floor to the announcers' table (there was no camera on them, but we could hear the ref's voice, so he was evidently explaining their decision to the broadcasters). But the explanation was only in broad terms, i.e., personal foul (still non-shooting) on the Xavier player, and the technical on Lou, but THERE WAS NEVER ANY EXPLANATION OF WHY THE TECH WAS CALLED. Here's my problem. Broadcast announcers rarely get a chance to converse with officials during a game. But here was one of those rare exceptions -- the ref had come across the floor to the table specifically to explain their decision. These announcers are (or should be) trained as reporters, and it should have been incumbent on them, at that moment, to ask the ref the reason for the technical foul, so they could explain it to their listening audience. They missed that golden opportunity, and so it probably wasn't until the game was over that we realized Lou was whistled for foul language. [/QUOTE]

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