Not sure if there has been another thread about general college basketball games this season, but I watched a couple games tonight that are related to ISU. First - impressive OT win by TTU vs a very good, and well-coached Nevada club (ranked 22). Secondly, I was frustrated that SDSU (Otz's team) couldn't pull off the upset vs Wichita State. I watched almost the entire game - but stopped because I was so mad at the obvious homerism by the refs. The Jacks had total control of the game until the refs took over. Brown for the Shockers got away with two blatant offensive fouls - shoved one guy down, then got to the rim for an "and 1." This whittled the lead down to single digits. A few plays later, he put his head and shoulder down, initiating the contact with the defender and bowled him over. He made the shot and, again, got the "and 1." This narrowed the lead down to 5. Then on the next couple of plays, SDSU gets completely mauled and there is no foul. The last straw before I turned it off was on a Shocker press: The Jacks inbound the ball and a Shocker player knocks the ball cleanly away and out-of bounds - right in front of the ref. The ref gives the ball to the Shockers. There is a timeout and the Shocker player is laughing his *** off at the call as the SDSU guard simply smiles and shakes his head. Prior to this entire hose job, SDSU had an answer for everything that WSU was doing. You'd have thought that it was ISU playing at AFH, or our FB team playing in Manhattan (okay, maybe not quite that bad). SDSU ended up losing by 10, BTW.
