I thought the refs were awful again and the majority of calls went against us again. We got hacked on several drives with no call then they would call ticky tack stuff on us at the defensive end. The point guard for Nova pushed off about a dozen times with no call and Pinkston was allowed to do whatever he wanted, he carried the ball, pushed guys to create space etc.
Before anyone brings up the Lamb foul on Cheek, yes the refs missed that one for Nova but that was the only bad call against Nova.
When that happened I said to myself that was the tradeoff for Johnson stiff arming Boat like Adrian Peterson all night....then of course Lamb gets pulled to the ground on the inbounds pass.
I thought the charge call on Shabazz was terrible. The percentage of charge calls that aren't really charges is incredibly high. I don't know why officials err on the side of calling it. IF THE DEFENDER MOVES AFTER THE BALLHANDLER HAS LEFT HIS FEET, IT IS NOT A CHARGE, NO MATTER HOW VIOLENTLY THE DEFENDER FALLS BACKWARD. And yes, numerous other terrible calls and non-calls, most of which went against UConn. We did not get jobbed in the last minute or overtime, at least.
Spoke about the refs after the Marq game. James Breeding and Roger Ayers are 2nd tier guys, like BEAVER who called the tech on Boat Saturday. That charge tonight on Boat was awful. Refs do make a diff..
The call I don't understand was the timeout they gave to Sutton. I mean, his foot was on the line and the referee was looking right at it. Whether he was calling timeout or not is totally irrelevant. What in the world was running through that referee's mind?
The announcers were all over Ty Johnson throwing out a stiff arm every 3 seconds and getting called zero times for it
Just another reason we need Calhoun back. That nonsense stops with the hall of famer on the sideline.
On the Sutton timeout call he hacked Bazz's arm and then called a timeout while on the sideline, there were many other call worse than that against us. I thought it was almost as bad against us as in the Marquette game. We have been getting killed by the refs lately, they don't respect/fear Blaney at all.
I couldn't believe that the refs let Johnson push off the entire game.He did it in the open with the refs a few feet away.
Pinkston had one carry late second half that was absolutely ridiculous. He was getting the Allen Iverson rules tonight.
I agree. Was blarney in the refs ear about Williams pushing off? I'm sure JC would have been all over them.
I always expect the out of bounds calls to go against UConn, unless they are blatant. He was out of bounds, the ball they called out on Oriaki was out on Villanova too. Just tired of it.
