Wake is about to kill my bracket because of WVU

[cronos]

crap. all i can hope is that other people's brackets are exploding also.

 

[Jpark]

It all came down to who wanted it more, WVU just wanted it more.

 

[Mill]

Originally posted by: chuckywang

Originally posted by: Mill

Originally posted by: RagingBITCH
TT will pwn WV

WVU isn't playing Texas Tech. I believe the next game are the Refs vs. TT.

Oh, c'mon. You have to hand it to West Virginia. Those kids played with HEART and I'll be damned if they didn't deserve it.

Deserving to win and having the refs hand you the game are two entirely different things. One call I could deal with, but when you have three bad calls in 2OTs, as well as some bad no calls on WVU it was just a poorly officiated game, yet it got worse in the end. I'm not a ref basher - in fact I hardly EVER bash refs, but this game was sickening and was just pure blatant crap.

 

[Miramonti]

Originally posted by: jpark932
It all came down to who wanted it more, WVU just wanted it more.

I think it came down to who was better. WVU played a much more superior game under duress than wake.

 

[oboeguy]

Huh? I had Wake in my bracket and I thought the refs were fine. For once they called stuff like palming/carrying. About freaking time, IMO.

Watching this game (turned it on with 2 and change to go in regulation), the Syracuse crash and burn, etc has been so much better than watching the NBA. Really a pleasure, despite the fact that half of my final four is now eliminated.

 

[shopbruin]

Originally posted by: blurredvision
Good god. I had Illinois, Wake Forest, Syracuse, and Kansas in my Final Four. Although it's all good, as I thoroughly enjoyed rooting West Virginia on to the win just now .

ouch. my final is all messed up now, i had wake losing to UNC.

 

[chuckywang]

Originally posted by: Mill

Originally posted by: chuckywang

Originally posted by: Mill

Originally posted by: RagingBITCH
TT will pwn WV

WVU isn't playing Texas Tech. I believe the next game are the Refs vs. TT.

Oh, c'mon. You have to hand it to West Virginia. Those kids played with HEART and I'll be damned if they didn't deserve it.

Deserving to win and having the refs hand you the game are two entirely different things. One call I could deal with, but when you have three bad calls in 2OTs, as well as some bad no calls on WVU it was just a poorly officiated game, yet it got worse in the end. I'm not a ref basher - in fact I hardly EVER bash refs, but this game was sickening and was just pure blatant crap.

I don't see how you can't call carrying on a guy going 100 miles an hour and dribbling the ball up to his shoulder. Downey had been doing that for two possessions in a row. He got called for it the second possession.

 

[Jgtdragon]

There goes one of my final four team.

 

[Mill]

Originally posted by: oboeguy
Huh? I had Wake in my bracket and I thought the refs were fine. For once they called stuff like palming/carrying. About freaking time, IMO.

Watching this game (turned it on with 2 and change to go in regulation), the Syracuse crash and burn, etc has been so much better than watching the NBA. Really a pleasure, despite the fact that half of my final four is now eliminated.

That's fairly illogical. You admit the refs never call that stuff, yet they call it vs. WF and that makes them good? A game and a tourney should have consistency, and not just "start" calling stuff all of a sudden. That's a tad unfair don't you think? Besides, the calls were plain bad, period.

 

[Mill]

Originally posted by: chuckywang

Originally posted by: Mill

Originally posted by: chuckywang

Originally posted by: Mill

Originally posted by: RagingBITCH
TT will pwn WV

WVU isn't playing Texas Tech. I believe the next game are the Refs vs. TT.

Oh, c'mon. You have to hand it to West Virginia. Those kids played with HEART and I'll be damned if they didn't deserve it.

Deserving to win and having the refs hand you the game are two entirely different things. One call I could deal with, but when you have three bad calls in 2OTs, as well as some bad no calls on WVU it was just a poorly officiated game, yet it got worse in the end. I'm not a ref basher - in fact I hardly EVER bash refs, but this game was sickening and was just pure blatant crap.

I don't see how you can't call carrying on a guy going 100 miles an hour and dribbling the ball up to his shoulder. Downey had been doing that for two possessions in a row. He got called for it the second possession.

I've got it on TIVO, and he most certainly didn't dribble up to his shoulder. At least admit you are biased because of where you live - so what if I lose part of my bracket, it isn't a rivarly hate, besides a lot of other people had Wake, Syracuse, or Kansas, so I'm still 2nd to 4th in most of my pools. My issue is with claiming that the calls were not bad, when they very clearly were - and it was more than just three calls. Let's not forget how Pittsnogle was basically assraping people inside and the refs were acting blind as mice.

 

[Jpark]

It is unfair but there was a lot of those calls that they missed, when a guy dribbles the ball above his head and something isn't called. I don't care if it's the NBA or what, it should be called.
But I thought the officiating was poor on both sides. And I'm from WV so......

 

[Nitemare]

Originally posted by: jpark932
It all came down to who wanted it more, the refs just wanted WVU to win it.

Fixed your post

 

[juiio]

You can complain about the refs all you want, but Wake didn't play defense at all during the game.

 

[Pacfanweb]

Originally posted by: juiio
You can complain about the refs all you want, but Wake didn't play defense at all during the entire season.

Fixed that for you. Wake plays no D.

 

[Nitemare]

Originally posted by: juiio
You can complain about the refs all you want, but Wake didn't play defense at all during the game.

They haven't played defense all year and still managed to lose only a handful.

 

[Nitemare]

Originally posted by: Pacfanweb

Originally posted by: juiio
You can complain about the refs all you want, but Wake didn't play defense at all during the entire season.

Fixed that for you. Wake plays no D.

LOL, great minds think alike

 

[oboeguy]

Originally posted by: Mill

Originally posted by: oboeguy
Huh? I had Wake in my bracket and I thought the refs were fine. For once they called stuff like palming/carrying. About freaking time, IMO.

Watching this game (turned it on with 2 and change to go in regulation), the Syracuse crash and burn, etc has been so much better than watching the NBA. Really a pleasure, despite the fact that half of my final four is now eliminated.

That's fairly illogical. You admit the refs never call that stuff, yet they call it vs. WF and that makes them good? A game and a tourney should have consistency, and not just "start" calling stuff all of a sudden. That's a tad unfair don't you think? Besides, the calls were plain bad, period.

Yeah, and Paul doesn't ge this share of "star" calls. I didn't see the whole game, so I can't judge, but I thought the calls were pretty even down the stretch.

 

[Kev]

Originally posted by: oboeguy
Huh? I had Wake in my bracket and I thought the refs were fine. For once they called stuff like palming/carrying. About freaking time, IMO.

You don't just decide to call palms and carries in the 2nd OT of a NCAA tourney game. If your gonna call them, call them consistently across the NCAA. I don't know why these stupid refs decided to use throwback 1970s rules all of a sudden. That call was garbage, plain and simple.

 

[GoingUp]

i had syracuse winnin it all, so no complainin!