NCAA Tournament- Game 1- UCLA

[clarkwgriswold]

1 hour ago, kreed5120 said:

All the top programs cheat. Some are just better at not getting caught.

Nooooooooooooooo!!!!! Say it ain't true!

 

The next thing you're going to tell me is that John Calipari cheats.

 

I gave up when North Carolina and Saint Roy Williams walked away from that academic scandal unscathed.

Edited April 5, 2022 by clarkwgriswold

[MDZip]

Watching the Cavs and Jaime Jaquez is lighting them up. Brought back very bad memories. 

[Let'sGoZips94]

@Captain Kangaroo 1 day ban for @MDZip for reviving this thread without saying, "The refs suck."

[MDZip]

3 minutes ago, Let'sGoZips94 said:

@Captain Kangaroo 1 day ban for @MDZip for reviving this thread without saying, "The refs suck."

I'll man up and take it 😉😂 (and the refs dud suck 😊). 

[1981 grad]

On 3/18/2022 at 8:12 AM, 1981 grad said:

Watching the replay, the Zips did not play very well the last 5 minutes.  This is the difference of having the experience in playing in the tournament.  We just did not make shots in the last 5 minutes except for an X bank shot and a Clark layup off a rebound.  That drive by Ali was just stupid.  Especially when the coach told him to call a timeout when they did not have numbers. 

 

However, every call in the last 5 minutes went against the Zips. UCLA did not get called for any fouls the last 7 minutes.  Freemans 4th foul was a rebound where he knocked the ball backwards.  It was 50/50 ball under the basket and there was no foul.  The UCLA guy put his shoulder into Aziz and Aziz got called for the block.  Even the announcers indicated it was clearly a charge.  Finally, the moving screen in the last 2 minutes that took Freeman out of the game.  It was an iffy call.  Freeman did shift his body weight but it was not an obvious call and should have been a play on with 2 minutes left.  If that had been the UCLA best player, do you think the ref would have made the same call?  Finally, if Groce really wanted that timeout he gets into the face of the ref and calls timeout.  Instead, he froze and watched Ali make his move to the basket. 

 

I am very disappointed in that you have so few games to make a statement and the Zips could have made a statement that they beat a top ranked team.  However, the last 5 minutes showed that they could not close out this game.  I feel the same way I did against Ohio State, we let another one get away.  Bitter pill to swallow for Zips fans.

And since we are reviving this 3.5  year old topic, here is my 3.5 year old analysis of how the refs suck and we got hosed.