McCaffery on Gesell, Officiating, and NIT Tickets

[ILHawk]

True but no one was touching Clemmons when he whistled a pass out of bounds (past White) that would have given Iowa a 6 point lead late in the game. I'm not railing on Clemmons...think he's going to be great. I'm pointing out that we can't do a thing about bad officiating but complain. When we do get a chance to make a play we have to make it so we can overcome the officiating. The Clemmons play just happens to come to mind off the top of my head. Experience will help with this as it will with so many of the other shortcomings we had this year.

Fran's method of playing lot's of people although makes for fresh legs also presents opportunities for turnovers. Some players need to get their legs under them by getting tired. When you sit out for stretches especially as a ball handler and you come in pumped up it is not hard to over throw the ball. I don't remember how long he was in their before doing that, but that did come to mind. Not a criticism, but an observation.

 

[ILHawk]

So we have established that, without ambiguity, the Big 10, through the officials, assured Michigan St would be victorious in spite of whatever happened on the court.

My query to succeed that point; Is this the domain of the greater, Seth Davis run NCAA conspiracy to abash Iowa Basketball, or it is a divergent conspiracy supplementing the original?

I think the conspiracy folks should quit caring because we are never going to get calls and therefore will never be allowed to win. MSU will always win.... oh wait, Ohio State did....

 

[WindsorHawk]

I thought white was being held (no call) when he was coming off that screen. Just say'n

Could be...I was getting pretty hot by then. My wife was even letting me spew expletives freely at that point as she was smashing both fists into the foot stool. We may have been over reacting a bit to a basketball game...but it's been a few years since we played an important enough game to over react.

 

[ShadasRevenge]

And it's also interesting that the Iowa fanbase takes Kirk to task for NOT doing this.

Basketball is not Football...two different mindsets there.

If you don't think Kirk works to officials, you're nuts. He may not rip his headset off or throw things and go into histrionics like Rhoads does, but he works the officials just as much.

 

[Knight78]

Unlike Bill Self...lost all respect for that guy this year.

You mean you HAD some respect before?! Why? The guy was a whiner when he coached at Oral Roberts, he was a whiner when he coached at Tulsa, he became even more of a whiner when he coached at Illinois and now, he's taken being a whiner to a whole new level.

 

[Knight78]

Agreed. You could probably blame 4 or 5 turnovers on bad officiating. That would leave us with 15ish. While that's far from a good number, its not horrible against a team with MSU's athletic ability. It would have definitely been good enough to win the game anyway.

Not only does bad officiating account for 4 or 5 turnovers per game, it also accounts for 4-5 free throws for the opponent. That's a swing of 8-10 points.

 

[ForeverHawk]

There can be little doubt that in the second half the conference, through its officiating crew, was protecting its interests in having Michigan State and the three other top BTT seeds advance to the semifinals and final so that they got the highest seeds possible in The Dance. There can be no other explanation...

I had these exact thoughts as well. It definitely is a big conspiracy theory, but if Iowa beat MSU, maybe they get it, maybe they don't. But one thing for sure, it that it would have killed MSU's NCAA tourney seed. Iowa outplayed MSU for roughly 32 minutes in that game, and then everything changed with how physical the refs allowed MSU to be. I think if Iowa matched them physically, they would have been called for it?