Blaming officiating and moving forward

[jacknicholson]

Not saying the officials cost Iowa, but 4 points for MSU right here that shouldnt have been. The layup and Fran gets td up. I know if Iowa shoots a decent percentage from the line, it doesnt matter, but this is so bad

One could be tempted to call it traveling, might as well play football. Gesell should have slammed that classless Punk across the arms and take the foul rather then let him make the basket. He had one foul in the game.....

 

[jacknicholson]

Exactly. And you'll notice there are no officials in sight (although admittedly there could be someone towards the bottom of the screen out of view.) But I think the bench side ref is the one who should have coverage there. The official who missed the mid-court line violation on MSU's long bounce pass across the floor was eight or nine feet down the sideline and out of position to see it.

I watched the ref see the infraction at the half court line, Twetter. I have a very wide screen TV, similar to IMAX....

 

[jacknicholson]

Not saying the officials cost Iowa, but 4 points for MSU right here that shouldnt have been. The layup and Fran gets td up. I know if Iowa shoots a decent percentage from the line, it doesnt matter, but this is so bad

One could be tempted to call it traveling, might as well play football. Gesell should have slammed that classless Punk across the arms and take the foul rather then let him make the basket. He had one foul in the game.....

 

[tweeterhawk]

One could be tempted to call it traveling, might as well play football. Gesell should have slammed that classless Punk across the arms and take the foul rather then let him make the basket. He had one foul in the game.....

Our baser instincts aside, Jack, I think everyone in the building -- including Mike -- expected a traveling call.

 

[Eyedoctim]

Want to know how good of a look the official had of this little calamity. Watch the lower left hand corner of the screen and you see the official come into view. The whole thing happened right in front of him.

 

[1977Hawkeye]

Free throw differential rarely tells the whole story on officiating. Bilas said multiple times last night that Iowa was the much more aggressive team on curls and cuts to the baskets and MSU was just trying to push them off their spot, which you cant do. Almost half of MSU's shots attempts were 3 pointers (29 of 59 shots). Only a quarter of Iowa's field goal attempts were threes (12 of 48 shots).

There was 3 or 4 travels by MSU that I counted that werent called.

That being said Iowa missed a bunch of free throws and went over 15 minutes without a made field goal. That is why Iowa lost, not because of the refs. Its only a regular season loss in January in which Iowa couldnt throw the ball in an ocean for over half of the second half and they still took it to OT with a shot to tie or win at the buzzer.

Its not the end of the world like it seems like around here.

This, exactly. So let's stop with the theory that whoever shot more FT's clearly had the refs in their back pocket. The "officiating" was lousy, as usual.

Iowa could still have made a few more FT's and won the game in regulation despite it.

 

[Knight78]

Not saying the officials cost Iowa, but 4 points for MSU right here that shouldnt have been. The layup and Fran gets td up. I know if Iowa shoots a decent percentage from the line, it doesnt matter, but this is so bad

But Iowa DID shoot a decent percentage from the line. Only 3% less than their season average. We shot horribly from the field. Our season average is 47% and we were at 37% last night.

That being said, the missed traveling calls like this one definitely hurt.