Any Wisconsin fans out here?
Interestingly,two centers matching up-nice to see.
Gotta hope for a close game.
Have fun hoops fans-all two of you still reading this...LOL!
On Wisconsin !!
As a UW Alum it was pretty cool to see Bo Ryan and a great group of kids take down an undefeated juggernaut like Kentucky and go toe to toe with a perennial powerhouse like Duke. Someone had to lose, and Duke stayed in the game even with their big guys on the bench in foul trouble. But, UW will always be champs in the third world's eyes 😉
As someone who is still working off their student loans, partially while teaching as a college adjunct, I say it's time for them to get back to their Rocks for Jocks homework.
duke does it again
NCAA head of officials on controversial play: 'We never saw what everybody saw at home'
By now you’ve probably seen the blown call that went against Wisconsin with just under two minutes left in Monday night’s national championship.
If you missed it, Wisconsin’s Bronson Koenig drove into the lane and attempted a layup in traffic and missed badly. The ball went up in the air and players from both sides fought for the ball, which deflected off a hand and out of bounds. The officials initially ruled that the ball hit off of Koenig, giving the ball back to Duke.
However, a closer, zoomed-in replay showed that the ball clearly glanced off the finger of Duke’s Justise Winslow
Even after a review of nearly two minutes, possession was awarded to Duke in a head-scratching decision.
To explain how the blown call transpired, NCAA head of officiating John Adams appeared on Sirius XM radio and made a pretty surprising admission that they never saw the definitive replay that viewers saw at home.
“All four of our officials were involved in the review. We never saw, on our monitor, what everybody saw at home, if you can believe that,” Adams said.
However, after the officials left the monitor and made their ruling, Adams said he saw the zoomed-in view of the ball clearly touching Winslow’s finger.
At that point he had the opportunity to quickly make a decision.
“I saw it after they had left the monitor, and actually thought about, is it in my prerogative to get up, run over to the table, buzz the buzzer, and tell them to come back and look?” Adams said. “That’s how critical I thought the play was and concluded that this is a job for the guys on the floor. I’ve never done it before. Why would I do it tonight and perhaps change the balance of the game?”
Everyone has a plan, till you get punched in the face,
It was clear on that one camera angle that the Duke player touched the ball last.
I had no skin in this game so that may explain my attitude, which is - no big deal.
I doubt that play would have changed the outcome of the game, just my opinion, we will never know.
1 play doesn't make or break a basketball game. There were some iffy foul calls which made a bigger difference, but Duke played the better game - and it was a really good game.
