eyekwah
Well-Known Member
What have you observed about the 2016/2017 season?
For myself, since I watched a lot of games, I would say the officiating has been very inconsistent. Physical play is allowed by some crews and others do a better job of controlling it. Within a game one official of a crew will call fouls differently than another member of the crew. I believe the review system could be modified to give a coach the option to throw a red flag in the last three minutes of a game to ask for a review. If the coach is wrong he loses a timeout.
The systems being used to rank teams are imperfect. I do not think you can ever create a perfect one. A study of which rating systems are more reliable probably is needed. The Big Ten had no team ranked higher than a 4 seed and just two ranked teams in the top 25, yet had three teams make it to the sweet 16 and were only one made shot and one missed shot from having two teams in the elite 8.
For myself, since I watched a lot of games, I would say the officiating has been very inconsistent. Physical play is allowed by some crews and others do a better job of controlling it. Within a game one official of a crew will call fouls differently than another member of the crew. I believe the review system could be modified to give a coach the option to throw a red flag in the last three minutes of a game to ask for a review. If the coach is wrong he loses a timeout.
The systems being used to rank teams are imperfect. I do not think you can ever create a perfect one. A study of which rating systems are more reliable probably is needed. The Big Ten had no team ranked higher than a 4 seed and just two ranked teams in the top 25, yet had three teams make it to the sweet 16 and were only one made shot and one missed shot from having two teams in the elite 8.