I don't know if the refs should've called it or not, I won't make that determination. But looking at the movement from Edwards, she was moving and not set. Marshall clearly sold it well, so I'll say that those thinking that shouldn't have been called in that moment have a point, but Edwards was definitely not set.
2024 NCAA Tournament Thread
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CC is horrible at acting like every common foul kills her. The rest of them aren’t really like that. They have been playing great team basketball.
You can’t put the bogus call on Iowa role players.
I mean then call almost any screen. Hardly any of those around the arc are set. It’s become like palming in basketball. Pretty much everyone many years ago started palming while dribbling that officials and leagues realized it had to be allowed as it wasn’t going anywhere and made the game better. If you expect set screens to be perfect then everyone is fouling out ten minutes in. You call it when it’s egregiously late or the player throws excessive force with the shoulder or knee.
For the uninitiated there are 3 rules for WBB officiating:
1. When in doubt? Jump Ball
2. There is always and "extra" step when starting a drive to the basket from the perimeter
3. Screens are illegal until proven otherwise
No moment is too big or too small for these rules to be applied. It seems like a conspiracy when you watch any single game but it's just a part of the culture of WBB that is evolving a little slower than what the players are doing on the court.
Hopefully it improves in time for the Audi/Addy final four run
1. When in doubt? Jump Ball
2. There is always and "extra" step when starting a drive to the basket from the perimeter
3. Screens are illegal until proven otherwise
No moment is too big or too small for these rules to be applied. It seems like a conspiracy when you watch any single game but it's just a part of the culture of WBB that is evolving a little slower than what the players are doing on the court.
Hopefully it improves in time for the Audi/Addy final four run
Clark sets up Stuelke at a level you don’t often see in college bb.
The woman that set the screen knew what could happen and purposefully over embellished the perfect screen that would be shown on a coaching dvd about setting screens so they couldn’t call anything, and they called it.
That’s how I felt in that game. CC officiated the game and even had calls changed but the rest of the players didn’t strike me as anything terrible.
Right when the foul happened, I said this replay better show a blatant foul or that official has ruined this game and screwed UConn out of a chance to win.
Definition of rigged. They know what the numbers will be if Iowa makes the title game, and there’s definitely an incentive to make that happen.
Makes one wonder if they already know who is going to win the championship game too. So anti-climatic. Just sucked all the enjoyment of that game right out.
Definition of rigged. They know what the numbers will be if Iowa makes the title game, and there’s definitely an incentive to make that happen.
Makes one wonder if they already know who is going to win the championship game too. So anti-climatic. Just sucked all the enjoyment of that game right out.
It's not often where a single call actually hands a team the game, but there it was. Such a weak call, especially in that situation.
Not as much tonight. Hannah was getting ball dumped in from everyone tonight and she went to work around the rim. It was mostly her tonight with proper first steps, sealing well and crafty footwork. Martin made some just clutch shots down the stretch.
I won't disagree. I'm not knowledgeable enough to make a call one way or another about it. Edwards seemed to get in a bit late (seemed to slide into position as Marshall was getting there), so if I were the official, that's the reasoning I would use. But in the end, I don't know how you decide what can be called at what points in the game. Refs have to decide that and get better at consistency around it.
I mean UConn still had to make the shot. But sure wish we all could have seen the shot…
You see players try to exaggerate a bit to get calls all the time, but i'm not sure i've seen someone who does so much to sell fouls after they've already gotten the whistle. Almost to try to garner more calls in the future for poor abused Caitlin.
It is an odd thing to kind of hedge on wanting a team from our state to have great success. I know we are supposed to hate anything hawkeye, but I don't really feel that way. It is more about the individual players.
Most of us just think C Clark is a selfish whiner, all be it immensely talented. I think it is a lot easier to root for the every day / less fawned over / more lunch pail players. I want Kate, Hanna, and Gabby to have success. I am ready for C Clark to move on, and the circus that surrounds her.
Most of us just think C Clark is a selfish whiner, all be it immensely talented. I think it is a lot easier to root for the every day / less fawned over / more lunch pail players. I want Kate, Hanna, and Gabby to have success. I am ready for C Clark to move on, and the circus that surrounds her.
Her intensity when attacking was on a different level. Very coordinated, fluid and under control as well. Final Four MVP material.
Which, of course, is UConn.
With their, what, 11 titles?
End ESPN got busted helping them recruit?
