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eh, you can quibble on the fouls a bit, just make free throws and you still win.. but that 3 by Carr after he took about 4 steps was awful. Call the travel and Iowa is up 6 with 30 some seconds left and has the ball.

Yep make the right call there the game is effectively over. They blew it and should be ashamed.
 
Not saying Carr's big step back 3 wasn't a travel, but Touissaint got away with one that would have prevented his chance to salt the game away at the FT line. As Hummel put it, he got "happy feet" before started dribbling and was a traveling violation that wasn't called.

So, in a sense, it evened out (even though it happened that Carr hit the 3 and JoeT missed the FTs that would have won the game).
 
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Not saying Carr's big step back 3 wasn't a travel, but Touissaint got away with one that would have prevented his chance to salt the game away at the FT line. As Hummel put it, he got "happy feet" before started dribbling and was a traveling violation that wasn't called.

So, in a sense, it evened out (even though it happened that Carr hit the 3 and JoeT missed the FTs that would have won the game).
Minnesota bumped , hacked and pushed guys all around in the first half and got away with it cleanly except for Robbins.
Carr had numerous push offs to get open on his shots.
Props that their guys made the shots but they simply smashed Garza in the middle of a human sandwich and did whatever they wanted to him in the first half.
 
Minnesota bumped , hacked and pushed guys all around in the first half and got away with it cleanly except for Robbins.
Carr had numerous push offs to get open on his shots.
Props that their guys made the shots but they simply smashed Garza in the middle of a human sandwich and did whatever they wanted to him in the first half.

No they didn't. Luka always tries to split doubles. He creates the contact.

To many big boddies in the big ten to continue that strategy of trying to go through 2 players.

Until he becomes a threat to hurt you with the pass teams are going to continue to send 2 and 3 guys.
 
At one point in the second half, Iowa had 11 fouls and Minnesota had 4. You say Iowa doesn't play defense, isn't close enough to shooters, and yet you say the reffing was OK? Interesting logic.

Yes, Iowa STILL should have won the game, but if you're gonna rag on college athletes, why the hell give the adult refs--who actually get paid--a pass for doing a lousy job?

Fact: Iowa blew the game.

Fact: The refs were ridiculously favoring Minnesota despite the Gophers' much rougher play.

BTW: I didn't know Robbie Hummel and Dave Revsine were such great Minnesota boosters. They questioned almost every foul call against Minny in the second half while ignoring blatant missed calls against Iowa. Hell, Robbie even questioned why Minny was whistled for a foul when they bloodied CJ's lip! C'mon, man. Do you really think Garza misses all those chippies because he's NOT getting fouled in the double and triple teaming? 😣
your second FACT statement is one of the dumber statements of the week . " ridiculously " ? come on dude you are better than that .
 
All we needed was a 67% free throw shooter to make one more at the end. Joe T hit 4 in a row, then missed 2 - 67%.
 
Papabeef?
i agree it was a bad call . the contact occurred on the middle of joe t chest which should have told them he got there in time but with 8 minutes to go it did not cost us the game , we blew an 7 point lead in 45 seconds .
 
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It’s all a matter of perspective. You notice the bad calls against your own team but ignore the bad calls against the other team.

Nearly every game is called fairly.

no, it isn’t. Nearly every game is called with a massive advantage for the home team.
 
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Refs are human and miss calls. They also missed Joe T traveling with about 30 seconds left. Move on folks. Some of you make Nebraska whiners sound mature.
How about u go back and actually read the thread. Not once did i blamed the refs for costing us that game. That call I pointed out was freaking terrible as was the 5ft step back 3 that was a very clear travel. Iowa never should have lost that game, and the refs made some shitty calls, both can be true at the same time. And honestly I don’t even give a shit who the bad calls go against or for, i just want some freakin consistency! That’s the biggest problem i see w/ college officials, they’re terribly inconsistent and make calls going with the momentum of the game.
 
How about u go back and actually read the thread. Not once did i blamed the refs for costing us that game. That call I pointed out was freaking terrible as was the 5ft step back 3 that was a very clear travel. Iowa never should have lost that game, and the refs made some shitty calls, both can be true at the same time. And honestly I don’t even give a shit who the bad calls go against or for, i just want some freakin consistency! That’s the biggest problem i see w/ college officials, they’re terribly inconsistent and make calls going with the momentum of the game.
And there you go again blaming the loss on the refs. Every time Iowa loses, write it down, someone will start a thread blaming the loss on the refs. That is what losers do - make excuses.
 
And there you go again blaming the loss on the refs. Every time Iowa loses, write it down, someone will start a thread blaming the loss on the refs. That is what losers do - make excuses.

You got that right Texas. Every single loss there is a thread, or numerous threads, blaming officiating. Including numerous conspiracy theories pertaining to the B1G intentionally trying to keep Iowa down.
 
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The officiating, as questionable as it was at times, is not the reason Iowa lost.....

This, however, should be reviewed by the dean of officials as to how the ref saw 'block' here instead of 'charge'.


college officials have no idea how to call a block vs a charge. NBA refs are not perfect, but they are 100 times better at not bailing out offensive players by rewarding them and calling fouls on out of control drives where the defender has established position. Whatever they do for training the NBA refs on calling that, they need to teach the college refs.

This particular call you pointed out you will see all the time in the college game and it bugs me. In college, they seem to reward the second defender charge call where the defender has to be planted for 5 seconds not moving at all, and then dramatically flop/flail if barely touched. Think Brad Davison from Wisconsin drawing charges. Meanwhile, this good defense by Toussaint is penalized. A defender doesn't have to magically have his feet planted and not moving whatsoever to have established position. He has a right to the space his body occupies. If the offensive player is just slamming into him not going anywhere, that is not a foul on the defense.
 
college officials have no idea how to call a block vs a charge. NBA refs are not perfect, but they are 100 times better at not bailing out offensive players by rewarding them and calling fouls on out of control drives where the defender has established position. Whatever they do for training the NBA refs on calling that, they need to teach the college refs.

This particular call you pointed out you will see all the time in the college game and it bugs me. In college, they seem to reward the second defender charge call where the defender has to be planted for 5 seconds not moving at all, and then dramatically flop/flail if barely touched. Think Brad Davison from Wisconsin drawing charges. Meanwhile, this good defense by Toussaint is penalized. A defender doesn't have to magically have his feet planted and not moving whatsoever to have established position. He has a right to the space his body occupies. If the offensive player is just slamming into him not going anywhere, that is not a foul on the defense.

Bingo.
 
What else are you going to do in man defense though?

You can't just let the ball defender get picked with no help at the 3pt line.

Playing man with Garza is just not a good option no matter what and when you mix in JBO as the guy getting screened its not workable no matter what you do.

Jbo is the worst defender I have Ever seen At Iowa. What’s sad about that is he’s gotten worse over the years and seems less interested in playing defense each game. My 93 year old granny could drive by him.
 
Iowa got some really good calls in the Purdue game to help win it so I’m not blaming refs for a w or l. You have to play through the good or bad calls. What I want to know is why did Fran not foul at the end to prevent the three point shot? Up three, they have the ball with seconds on the clock, you foul do they can’t tie with a three.
 
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Iowa got some really good calls in the Purdue game to help win it so I’m not blaming refs for a w or l. You have to play through the good or bad calls. What I want to know is why did Fran not foul at the end to prevent the three point shot? Up three, they have the ball with seconds on the clock, you foul do they can’t tie with a three.
I definitely think this should be Iowa's strategy since they aren't a good defensive team. If you are a really good defensive team I would probably just play defense and try to make them hit a crazy tough shot but we know Iowa is not that.
 
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To pile on some more here.... An obvious backcourt violation just happened in the Purdue vs Rutgers game, then Geo Baker elbowed a Purdue kid in the face after getting it back across. Foul on the Purdue kid. All under a minute in a close game. Larry Scrotum is on the crew...
 
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