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***NCAA Championship Game Thread***
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It's too bad the officiating got in the way of a really good game tonight. Louisville was definitely the better team, but the game legitimately would have been better if they just let the players call their own fouls.
These refs tonight were a prime example of what is wrong with college basketball today. Inconsistent on both ends of the floor, letting things get waaaayyyyyy too physical, and the refs making the game about them, not the kids playing the game. A prime example of that is when that ref stared down Burke after he reacted to the atrocious foul called on a clean block. I hate it when refs do that. And then five minutes later 4 Michigan players were mugging a Louisville kid on an offensive rebound and there was no call made. How Burke's play was a foul and there were countless no calls on numerous scrums under the hoop amazed me.
These refs tonight were a prime example of what is wrong with college basketball today. Inconsistent on both ends of the floor, letting things get waaaayyyyyy too physical, and the refs making the game about them, not the kids playing the game. A prime example of that is when that ref stared down Burke after he reacted to the atrocious foul called on a clean block. I hate it when refs do that. And then five minutes later 4 Michigan players were mugging a Louisville kid on an offensive rebound and there was no call made. How Burke's play was a foul and there were countless no calls on numerous scrums under the hoop amazed me.
Maybe. I don't know, he did get them to get the ball inside but in the end those guys made shots and made plays. Trey Burke, even though he is the best player in college, put it all on him late. UM also plays 6 freshman for a lot of the game and it finally caught up, I think. Siva is a stud and makes that team go. You can question every decision made but in the end, Louisville made stops and got some buckets. I thought the way the perimeter was called favored UL and Michigan didn't really adjust. They have been finesse all year and they got beat in a physical game.
They let a lot of stuff go, I will agree with you on that, but, it is the National Championship game. This is what it is all about. No need for refs to control the game that way. The players can adjust as long as the refs stay consistent, which they were IMO.
I felt like the refs were on the verge of really losing control of this game. I enjoy a game with lots of intensity but it was starting to look dangerous at times.
You thought they were consistent? Haha, wow, they weren't even close. Rus Smith mugs for 5 minutes and then he gets called on a tiny little bump.
CycloneErik
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I called it as soon as it happened that it would end up on one shining moment. At least we ISU made the cut though.
I didn't see it, either --- read about it in One Shining Moment thread ... you're right, although it's a bittersweet inclusion for ISU, at least we had a chance for the bittersweet moment.
I remember missing the postseason entirely for six straight seasons.
my favorite call was when they didnt give hancock his 4th foul and gave some other guy his first after hancock flew into the legs of a guy who was in mid air, followed by the foul called on burke on about the best damn block he could make.
