Just a comment I have been watching the ncaa I think the officials have been very inconsistent they are not calling the game the same way at both ends of the court. I wonder do these guys work together all year or are they thrown together for the tourney I do not have a rooting interest in the games bt it is easy to see the officials are impacting some of these games. I am no fan of North Carolina but that player should not have been ejected, Call a foul if you must but do not eject a player for just doing what everyone else does in the lane block out that ejection changed that game
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Also inconsistent half to half
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The technical on the Illinois Melendez dunk was the worst call I’ve ever seen.
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Reminded me of the call on Tyler Brown.
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Probably the wrong call. But worst you've ever seen? Doug and the 72 Olympic squad would like a word with you
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Are we going to pretend that was ever fairly officiated. NCAA tourney games should be fair.
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True, but this was far from the worst college bad call. That's an average call for Gerry
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I think, for the most part, the crews are "thrown together" for the tourney. At times you see guys working together who frequent the same conferences, but it is not a case where a "Big Ten crew" works one game and a "SEC crew" works another, etc. Today's Illini game, Courtney Green is a regular Big 10 ref, Brian O'Connell is mostly Big East and SEC, and Mike Reed is mostly PAC 12/west coast.
Totally agree the reffing has been pretty bad for the most part. Did lots of "slo mo" and "stop action" during Illini-Chattanooga game, they were working Kofi over something fierce, grabbing, holding etc. and nothing called, but at the other end a little bump would get called. Sad.
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Carolina was up 25. It was the refs fault they choked it to overtime before finally making a play to win the game? I know there were a few questionable calls but the refs didn’t try to steal one there. That was just horrid execution from them the last 10 min.
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The officiating has seemed, to me, to be the same as it always is. Sometimes good, sometimes bad. Sometimes WTF? Sometimes “Wow, on review ref got that really tough call right.”
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I didnt mean to imply there is that the refs did anything on purpose but teams and players get reputations and the refs then watch for things only human nature but I have seen a lot of flopping just because a guy hits the floor does not mean there was a foul like I said too inconsistent
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Arizona definitely benefited from the late calls.
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For sure
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The best news is Illannoy lost.
And Dinma a couple of times, including one at bradley.
Going back to Arch Madness in St. Louis, physical contact that would have been a foul during the regular season has often gone ignored in the postseason. Maybe I'm a "purist," but the rules don't change during the season. IMO the game should be called the same from opening day through the NCAA title game. Of course, I realize that officiating is subjective and not all crews from all conferences call the game uniformly. Also, the final seconds of a game are played under the same rules as the opening minutes and should be called the same; the theory that officials should swallow their whistles and not make a call in the final seconds so as not to be determining the outcome of the game is bullshit, because by NOT enforcing the rules the officials ARE determining the outcome of the game.........just in favor of the team that committed the overlooked infraction. For example, if a game is tied and with one second left a shooter is fouled but the foul is not called, one team (i.e,, the offense) is deprived of potential game-winning free throw attempts.
While I'm on a rant, the benefit of the doubt on offensive foul calls has swung wildly in the past few years. Now, any contact with any part of the ballhandler's body that causes the defender to fall off balance is an offensive foul regardless of the degree of force or the fact that the defender was not "set" and was moving right along the hip of the ballhandler. The defender used to be required to have established a "set" position and not be moving (excluding obvious scenarios where the ballhandler kicked a Wichita State player and the refs sent the wrong Shocker to the free throw line).
Please spell Gerry Pollard's first name with a G. Every minute detail that separates me from him is appreciated.