2024 NCAA Tournament Thread

[CycloneVet]

It'll be interesting to see how Geno handles this. UCONN doesn't get big timed with the refs like they did tonight.

I would be very vocal in the press conference, **** the fine

 

[cyclonespiker33]

To call that foul is an absolute rob job of a great finish to the game. Refs had to make it about themselves

It literally wasn't an illegal screen. Just an absolute phantom foul. Complete bull$hit

 

[jctisu]

One thing I will say though is with your size, you can’t get out-rebounded 38-30.

 

[packattack425]

Does the best Iowa actor since Ashton Kutcher play on the Iowa WBB team?

 

[cyclone87]

Women’s officiating is bad in general. Nobody wants to see that called there lol

 

[Darius Bieber]

Is the women’s games always this bad? Is like a civil rights and diversity thing here? I have seen some bad , just head scratching calls.

Let’s just say that if they actually were decent refs, they’d be refereeing down in Phoenix this weekend instead of Cleveland.

 

[Marcelason78]

UConn shoots four FTs.

 

[Gunnerclone]

To call that foul is an absolute rob job of a great finish to the game. Refs had to make it about themselves

Ya it’s not good when the ref makes the biggest play in crunch time.

 

[jcf817]

Is the women’s games always this bad? Is like a civil rights and diversity thing here? I have seen some bad , just head scratching calls.

What?

 

[alarson]

One thing I will say though is with your size, you can’t get out-rebounded 38-30.

felt like a lot of long rebounds were contributing to that.

 

[Gunnerclone]

Maybe in a regular season game but you don't do that in the final four. I feel physically ill.

Maybe in the first quarter to set an expectation but that wasn’t getting called at all until that call. Both teams playing really clean all game as well. Definitely outside of the flow of the game.

 

[2speedy1]

40-0 in 1st/2nd round is not healthy. Maybe it's more on a stupid tournament/playoff format than Uconn being good, but also some of it is just spreading out the talent more. Clark wanted to be a Husky right?

I commented live that the call on the illegal screen was brutal.

The playoff format of home court advantage is what ruins this tourney.

The absolute preferential treatment of their star player for ratings, ruins the game.

No other way to say it. They are doing everything they can to keep CC playing for the ratings, its so sickeningly obvious. The announcers are so blatantly CC pushers it isnt even funny.

 

[clonedude]

@HFCS Garbage like giving star treatment to get ratings is what will hurt the game. Not UConn’s dominance. That was a joke.

Winner…. THAT right there is what will ruin a sport. The fix was in big time. Not even close to a foul.

A very exciting game gets decided by the refs instead of the players on the court. Shameful.

I was literally on the edge of my seat at the end there, and the officials ruined the game.

Oh well…. they got what they wanted. Iowa beat a team missing 5 players and got the game deciding call they needed.

It’s the WWE folks!!

 

[Sigmapolis]

Ya it’s not good when the ref makes the biggest play in crunch time.

I'm not opposed to them calling a foul on a play at the end of a close, important game.

But it's got to be egregious. One nobody is going to question in hindsight.

A "eh, maybe" call that everybody would forget about if it was at 5:27 in 1Q isn't that call.

 

[Drew0311]

Refs were paid off by the ncaa no doubt. That is not a foul and no team ever gets that foul

 

[cyclonespiker33]

Winner…. THAT right there is what will ruin a sport. The fix was in big time. Not even close to a foul.

A very exciting game gets decided by the refs instead of the players on the court. Shameful.

I was literally on the edge of my seat at the end there, and the officials ruined the game.

Oh well…. they got what they wanted. Iowa beat a team missing 5 players and got the game deciding call they needed.

It’s the WWE folks!!

It's still real to me damnit!

 

[HFCS]

The playoff format of home court advantage is what ruins this tourney.

The absolute preferential treatment of their star player for ratings, ruins the game.

No other way to say it. They are doing everything they can to keep CC playing for the ratings, its so sickeningly obvious. The announcers are so blatantly CC pushers it isnt even funny.

After watching full game of South Carolina for first time they’ll need the help.

 

[F5cy]

 

[IASTATE07]

Some of you guys are taking this pretty hard.

 

[HFCS]

Refs were paid off by the ncaa no doubt. That is not a foul and no team ever gets that foul

It’s a bad call any time and a really bad call at that point of the game.