How he didn't get called for flopping on that 3 pointer over Nicholson is beyond me.
Hard to argue a guy was "fouled" on his fingertips when he swishes the shot.
Sandfort falls to the floor because of the air moved.
Collins goes ballistic and Sandfort gets 3 free throws.
No real replays in slow motion to analyze it. Not even a suggestion that it was close by the announcers. It was like that all night.
There's a play in the first half on Buie driving to the basket. He is bumped and lands on his butt way beyond the basket. The foul could be seen from outer space. They called it, like 2 seconds after a ref normally blows the whistle. It was like their brains were processing "was this too egregious to let go?" and decided it was too much, they had to call it. Plays like that are absorbed by the Iowa players, as they should be, and naturally they push the boundaries of what the refs would call. We got physical we got in foul trouble. They got physical and the zebras put their whistles up their bums.
There's no cabal to punish us. But refs are human. They feel the pressure and the subconscious alters their decisions. They were never going to upset Franco too much and have to eject him. Not on an emotionally charged night. I put myself in their shoes and my brain would probably go the same way. But, in the end, we were the ones getting screwed.
It was the most annoying refereeing I have seen in a while. And it won't result in any statement from the league like the OSU/Rutgers game when they recognized Rutgers was robbed. This was a game that ends up on a 16 pt lead, there is no terrible call in the last minute that decides a game. But, oh boy, was it atrociously officiated. Kudos to CC for going ballistic. It was justified and necessary.
I point out what are bad calls in my view but, in the end, in most cases, defend the refs. It's an incredibly hard to officiate game when a slight touch gives zero chances of a basket. But yesterday was just bull crap.
One night later and it still pisses me off.
