Have the refs absolutely ruined this NC game? The first half was incredible. Did they feel left out, you know, since we all look forward to hearing their whistles.
Overly involved officials. I am sure there were bad calls both ways, but since I was rooting for Gonaga my views likely were biased. The 4th on Collins was weak. The flagrant on Karnowski was one of the weakest flagrant fouls I have ever seen.
Dunga, I don't know that the gambling necessarily has anything to do with it. The books make their money regardless by shifting the line, right?
There were bad calls both ways. The airball 3 pointer for Gonzaga that they got reversed as a UNC OOB and it led to a made 3 pointer 5 seconds later. The jump ball tie up where Meeks was OOB. The flagrant on Karnowski - give me a break. I had a feeling Raftery was beside himself with the 2nd half officiating. Weak calls on Collins. To be fair, some weak calls on UNC too. Actually the entire 2nd half was just plain weak. The refs sucked and it affected the game, took the players out of rhythm, and then the play suffered as a result. An incredible, physical game with good flow in the 1st half - why can't the refs just leave a good thing alone?
Credit to Gonzaga for not blaming the officials. I think it would be sour grapes. It was just plain bad officiating no matter who won or lost.
Agree 100%. Just terrible officiating in the 2nd half. I thought the first was great and the refs decided at halftime to take over the game. Even though they got that "tipped shot" call wrong, technically the Gonzaga player was fouled so it evened out. The weaks calls throughout the 2nd half just killed the game. Both teams were in the bonus at 14 min! In 6 min there were over 14 fouls called! FFS, its a National Championship game! Unfortunately this is par for the course lately. The 2015 game was officiated horribly as was the entire 2013 Final 4. As a huge college basketball fan I was disgusted with it. I immediately shut the game off after it ended, which is something I never do.
I will defend the oob call at the end because I know how tough it is. I am sure he was making sure the players were tied up and nobody had committed a foul and also whether there was actually a tie up at all. You do have to check the end lines in that situation as well. It would have been easy to call after assessing everything but I bet he got caught up in the game. Understandable but not excusable.
The NCAA can't have two smallish, private Catholic schools winning back-to-back national championships. It might rock the boat with the grab-and-consume-'til-you-die P5 schools.
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