I hate refs like this

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I'm not saying they cost us the game or anything, but you got to let them play some. There were those "anticipation" foul calls all night long, anytime somebody drove to the basket.

And the phantom foul call on Damion James with .47 left (game tied at 69) was crucial & total BS!!! I don't care what Clark Kellogg says....you gotta let that go.
 
They cheated, everyone knows it. Texas knows it, Duke knows it, everybody who was watching knows it. It is borderline illegal to make that call on James from that position--you simply DO NOT DO THAT as a referee. I'm not surprised that the refs cheated, but it's so sickening that it it happened at the end of the game and ****** us over.
 
I can't remember ever seeing a foul like the one they called on James. Everyone is rebounding, he turns around and brushes the guy and they call a foul on him....and its the ref that is at the half court line. Unbelievable. As for Johnsons foul...Okay, his hand touched the Duke player...but lets get real...All he was doing was bracing himself for contact. There is no way he really "pushed" the Duke player.
 
Make some freaking free throws like most good junior high players, and we have a ten point lead at that point of the game......No true point guard and poor shooting beat us...... plain and simple.
 
I am the guy that usually thinks that the calls will even themselves out throughout a game. This was not the case tonight. I hate it for our kids that played their hearts out. The ref's should be ashamed of themselves for dictating the game. I know we could have had fewer turnovers, and made more free throws, but we were battling ourselves, Duke, and the ref's. Sad ending to an up and down season.

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Johnson's was technically a foul, but you don't call it at that point in the game if you are a ref. Damion's was ********. But we threw this game by sucking at the foul line and turning it over so many times. It was amazing that we had a chance to win it. It was a fitting end for this season for Duke to be up 3 with 11? seconds and shooting free throws, needing to make one to ice the game, they miss them both and they get the rebound.
 
Some one tell me this please. So when Scheyer makes the save, why are the Texas players and coaches celebrating on the bench like he was out of bounce? the ref runs over and rules duke ball. I watched chapman and barnes complain to the ref right after the play and thought to my self, that was the call. So what's a reviewable call in college basketball anyway?
 
what replay, the one angle where the ref was completely blocking the camera? Is there another angle not available to us and should have it been looked at?
 
so tell me, second round of the ncaa tourney and we only have one floor angle of him making the save with a refs lower body blocking the line so the viewer can't see the most important part of the play (whether his foot was ob or not??). Tell me, if he was clearly in why did RB and Chapman both on camera (physically pointing down to the ob line) to the refs signaling he was out even after Duke made a free throw on the Johnson foul?????
 
no, i hear that all of the time. why can't i ask a question and why can't that question pertain to the out come of a game. please don't give me the company line.
 
oh bullcrap

Duke was clearly NOT the better team . . . we shot ourselves in the foot as we have all year.

Duke had no one that scared me at all on offense. We physically outmatched them on offense (Ward goes for career high!?!?) and if we have a bit of luck and/or make free throws and/or paly a decent first half, Duke plays the role of come from behind team.

Screw the refs. We had that game won and Duke knows it.
 
The James foul was the call of the game. Instead of tied and we have have ball, we are down 2. Duke wins the game never having to make a shot from the floor. That's the hard part. The get 2 chippy fouls and that decides the game. They don't have to do **** except make free throws. But it's basketball. It happens all the time. The ACC is very over rated except for UNC and it's showing. Duke just doesn't have the athletes they have had in the past. They won't go far.
 
I thought the teams were pretty even. Neither had a superstar. Duke had the advantage over AJ on the outside and AJ could not get an open shot all night. He rarely had a catch and shoot situation and mostly was forcing shots a little too deep or over a taller defender. Texas had the advantage with size inside and this led to a rebounding edge. Unfortunately Texas did not capitalize on this offensively and feed the ball down low enough.

Texas did well just to come back at the end and make it a close game. But they did not shoot FTs well all night and that cost them. They also turned the ball over a ton the 1st half and that cost them. You just can't play that sloppy a game (poor FT%, poor 3PT%, too many TOs) and then complain about 1 call costing you the game. Sure it was a bad call but it didn't cost Texas the game.
 
The article from the Houston Chronicle even made comments about the officiating. Right or wrong, officials do make a difference in a game. If you call that foul on James, then you call a foul on every rebound. Duke was also pretty good about flying 5 feet everytime they were touched. Johnson did not push that kid very hard but he went flying. I know that's part of the game though.
 
Missed free throws were a killer, no doubt. But for that ref, standing at mid-court, to call the foul on James is criminal. Missed shots and turnovers are hard to overcome, but add a call like that to the equation, when the freaking game is tied....and it makes it impossible. Outcome may have been the same, but you cannot make that call. Horrendous.
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A good article is on Rivals about the Western Kentucky game and they make a reference to the shady officiating in the Texas game. There are a bunch of comments about the Texas game and how we got screwed. And these are not Texas fans.
 
I'll toss on another little "wtf" call in the game. Gary Johnson was called for charging at the top of the lane at some point in the game. Who called the foul? Not the ref standing to the left or right of Johnson and the guy he "charged"...but rather the ref standing under the basket that in no way could see the amount of contact Johnson had with the Duke player. Just makes no sense.
 
Duke always gets calls like this. At some point, you have to wonder when it's coincidence/benefit of the doubt or there is something really going on there. And after watching basketball my entire life, Duke always getting the calls, I prefer to choose the latter.

I dont know if its their coach, their name, or dollar signs... But no one gets calls like Duke does. Nobody.

Texanwolv - They didnt call a foul on Gary. They called a phantom foul on Connor. If you get a chance to watch it again, go watch what Connor did. He simply just set up in the paint for the ball/rebound. There was WAYYY more pushing and shoving going on throughout the game, however they call a ticky tack call that had nothing to do with the play.

And Duke was not the better team. They shouldve beaten us by 20 pts. We are clearly matched up pretty evenly.
 
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