The Refs

[lunker35]

We've been winning despite them, but it really seems like recently we've been getting a ton of questionable calls. Bryant is a monster, but was getting away with a TON tonight and every time he touched the ball it was an automatic foul. At some point it's going to hurt us. We did a nice job of balancing out the fouls tonight, but I was still so frustrated with the whistles. End rant.

 

[NJCat]

We've been winning despite them, but it really seems like recently we've been getting a ton of questionable calls. Davis is a monster, but was getting away with a TON tonight and every time he touched the ball it was an automatic foul. At some point it's going to hurt us. We did a nice job of balancing out the fouls tonight, but I was still so frustrated with the whistles. End rant.

I don't think the refs were a factor. NU earned their fouls.

 

[VirginiaWildcat]

I hate touch fouls so much! Refs don't understand that a foul doesn't always have to be called every time there's a little contact.

 

[Alan Smithee]

Thought some of the calls were bad, but they weren't overly intrusive as sometimes happens.

 

[mikewebb68]

There was one time that Thomas Bryant committed such a blatant hook on Benson that you could see it from the cheap seats, yet Benson was somehow called for the foul. Otherwise, I thought the officiating was pretty good.

 

[NU Houston]

There was one time that Thomas Bryant committed such a blatant hook on Benson that you could see it from the cheap seats, yet Benson was somehow called for the foul. Otherwise, I thought the officiating was pretty good.

The third foul call on Benson was also a bad one. A smaller guy was trying to block him out on a rebound, and he just moved out of the way, causing the IU player to lose his balance and fall down. The ref assumed that Benson had thrown him down, but it didn't look that way on TV.

He and Pardon both had three fouls early in the second half, but it turned out not to matter.

 

[Sec.112]

You didn't see any crappy calls against Indiana? None at all?

It was a really poor night for the refs. Nothing close to any type of consistency. Friggin' Collins was moaning on two separate occasions that refs missed call ... and each time the calls went in NU's favor. For some reason, he wanted to make the point that the ref in the best position didn't make the call in each case.

 

[lunker35]

I'm not just saying this game. It seems like there is some really consistently poor officiating. I feel we shouldn't see that at the B1G level.

 

[JournCat]

Lumpkin's last two fouls seemed questionable, but he also drew a 3-shot foul on a clean block, so let's call it even.

 

[charcat]

Collins was losing his mind on a couple of calls. The replays showed a couple of really bad calls, all against NU. It was kind of like, what the hell, if we don't know, might as well call it against NU since they are ahead.

 

[Alaskawildkat]

Collins was losing his mind on a couple of calls. The replays showed a couple of really bad calls, all against NU. It was kind of like, what the hell, if we don't know, might as well call it against NU since they are ahead.

My brother-in-law is a basketball ref here in Alaska and flies all over the state to officiate when he can fit it into his schedule. There is no more thankless job and those guys have to really love the game to stay with it. Needless to say my view of what constitutes a foul and his are not always the same though he is probably the one who is right. My biggest issue is typically with the calling of offensive fouls.

 

[Medill90]

I thought Sanjay had two strips that were clean. Like virgin Mormon on white sheets clean.

And the refs knew the f'd up so they game him three shots for a play he wasn't fouled on.

I like the refs to let aggressive post go, but I thought they were less generous with Pardon.

 

[VirginiaWildcat]

I thought they were bad. Whatever happened to no-calls? Every time the ball goes in the paint, you can almost guarantee a foul will be called, even with minimal contact.

 

[willycat]

I thought they were bad. Whatever happened to no-calls? Every time the ball goes in the paint, you can almost guarantee a foul will be called, even with minimal contact.

True a lot of touch fouls called in the paint, yet Bryant was banging his way to the rim again and again and no charges were called.

 

[hdhntr1]

I thought they were bad. Whatever happened to no-calls? Every time the ball goes in the paint, you can almost guarantee a foul will be called, even with minimal contact.

And if they were bad in a home game, what will they do when we play them on the road?

 

[FightNorthwestern]

We've been winning despite them, but it really seems like recently we've been getting a ton of questionable calls. Bryant is a monster, but was getting away with a TON tonight and every time he touched the ball it was an automatic foul. At some point it's going to hurt us. We did a nice job of balancing out the fouls tonight, but I was still so frustrated with the whistles. End rant.

Said every teams' fans ever.