That, and the Iowa staff did not adjust to the back-cuts and in-bounds plays Richmond was running. That was classic Pete Carril Princeton shit. Fran's no stranger to those plays and should have had his players ready for it. I'm guessing he felt he didn't need to coach the team on that as we were going to dramatically outscore and physically dominate the Spiders (whoever the hell names their team that?) it wasn't going to matter.
Iowa did play bad, but three free throws missed is a huge deal down the stretch in a four point game.
It wasn't just the last couple of bad calls at the end. There were many calls throughout the game that were inexplicable.
We're not saying they stole the game, just that they sucked. Iowa sucked so good reffing wouldn't really have helped but the bad calls are just salt in the wound.
We didn’t play bad? Iowa gave up 34-24 points in the paint. That should never happen to a team like that. Iowa should of pounded that ball down their throats all day long with Keegan, Kris, Filip, Josh, and Mulvey. Foul them out or put pressure on their bigs to defend or give up the points since they suck at rebounding. Fran had a terrible game plan today.
Except the roughing was egregious throughout the game, not just at the end.
No, but when you have a player like Keegan Murray and you can't make the necessary in-game adjustments to get him the ball, you are doing a p*ss-poor job of coaching basketball. Richmond's coach had a game plan and Fran had absolutely no counter except to let the team keep chucking up threes and hope they actually start to go in.
I wouldn't say we got killed against it. CBS/TruTV were very selective in their highlights.
Should never have been that close. Only losers bitch about the refs in a game like this where we should have been up 15. Don't go full on "clone".Already talking about this one
Did Iowa Get Screwed? 🤔
Richmond pulled off big upset, but fans aren't happy about this big no-call in crunch time. Was it the right call?bleacherreport.com
True, but any time you complain about officiating in the shadow of a loss...it has a certain "look".
Then rearrange some "furniture" and tell the people who have a problem with it to go f*** themselves.
yes, because "a certain look" means anything at all. We didn't play well today, and the refs didn't help things. Both are actually true.
You know its not like he wasn't on the floor. We've talked all year as have announcers about how KM gets his without Fran having to run sets for him. The fact is HE got passive after several early misses. He went probably 15 minutes of gametime without even a shot attempt. Thats not on the coach. He could very well have been more aggressive, and just wasn't. I have no doubt that he's second guessing that now......
And how almost 20% of the people in that poll voted that was clean, I'll never know. There is absolutely NO doubt that was clearly a foul, (the ball fell about 6ft from even getting to the rim), and the official standing a few feet away had a clear look at it, and did nothing. You tell me what that is......
He fouled him twice. On the shooting wrist and didn't allow him to land. Shooter landed on defenders feet because he moved under him. The missed foul call at the end of the game was one of many for both sides. It's magnified because of the timing.
