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Shame that the referee had to decide the game. UConn will be even tougher next year with Fudd and Griffin back. Uconn almost beat them with 5 players. Shade was aweful tonight.
 

Bunyan said:
Shame that the referee had to decide the game. UConn will be even tougher next year with Fudd and Griffin back. Uconn almost beat them with 5 players. Shade was aweful tonight.
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Yep. The stage was too big for Shade. She didn't belong on the court.

The call on Edwards seemed weak.
 

Bunyan said:
Shame that the referee had to decide the game. UConn will be even tougher next year with Fudd and Griffin back. Uconn almost beat them with 5 players. Shade was aweful tonight.
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The moving screen was an obvious foul. UConn prevented themselves from gettinga shot. The refs didn’t. As an elite program, they probably expect to be protected. The ref had no choice.
 

TruthSeeker said:
Yep. The stage was too big for Shade. She didn't belong on the court.

The call on Edwards seemed weak.
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It wouldn’t be the first one on UConn tonight that seemed weak. Oh well. SC is so much deeper and Cardoso will make life much harder for Stuelke.
 

Bunyan said:
Shame that the referee had to decide the game. UConn will be even tougher next year with Fudd and Griffin back. Uconn almost beat them with 5 players. Shade was aweful tonight.
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That screen basically happens every play…like holding in the NFL. Not a good look when we know the NCAA and network wanted Iowa in the finals pretty bad.
 


Absolutely brutal call. Ruined what could’ve been a great ending.
 

GoldMedalCounty said:
That screen basically happens every play…like holding in the NFL. Not a good look when we know the NCAA and network wanted Iowa in the finals pretty bad.
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I’m not buying it. It was a foul. She stepped right into the defensive player. I don’t see a lot of women’s games, but in general the officiating seems much worse than the men’s game. Didn’t notice that tonight.
 

Referee makes a weak screen call to decide the game, and misses about a dozen arm extended push offs that Clark and Martin used to get their shots tonight. Should have been 6-7 offensive fouls on those push offs. Need a better crew at this high level.
 

Bunyan said:
Referee makes a weak screen call to decide the game, and misses about a dozen arm extended push offs that Clark and Martin used to get their shots tonight. Should have been 6-7 offensive fouls on those push offs. Need a better crew at this high level.
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Thou protesteth too much.
 



I was surprised how long it took IO to set a few double screens to free up Clark. Both teams played hard and I think the depth of SC plus Cardoso will cause problems for IO.
 

That was definitely a foul on Edwards. She lifted her elbow up into the oncoming defender. They missed a few falls on UConn in the first half, where Iowa should have been shooting free throws. In the second half it was more evenly called, with a few misses on each team. But the shove on the Iowa player over the mid court line should have been called as well.
 

Brutal call at the end. I really wanted to cheer for Bueckers and UConn because of the Minnesota factor but found myself pulling for Iowa to win. I just never cared for Geno or UConn so why start now. I think if ever UConn would even have 5 Minnesotans starting I think I still might have a hard time rooting for the Huskies. I do think Bueckers gets them back to the final four next year ( unless of course they are in the Gopher’s side of the bracket).
 

Katogopher said:
Brutal call at the end. I really wanted to cheer for Bueckers and UConn because of the Minnesota factor but found myself pulling for Iowa to win. I just never cared for Geno or UConn so why start now. I think if ever UConn would even have 5 Minnesotans starting I think I still might have a hard time rooting for the Huskies. I do think Bueckers gets them back to the final four next year ( unless of course they are in the Gopher’s side of the bracket).
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UConn doesn't play in the WNIT in the post season.
 




Gold Vision said:
Absolutely brutal call. Ruined what could’ve been a great ending.
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“Nobody roots for Goliath’s”. .. Wilt Chamberlain

UConn biggest starter sets a pick on Iowa’s smallest player. The ref behind the screen sees Gabby flail and calls it.

I was rooting for Iowa but didn’t want them to win that way.
 





Holy Man said:
The moving screen was an obvious foul. UConn prevented themselves from gettinga shot. The refs didn’t. As an elite program, they probably expect to be protected. The ref had no choice.
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It was a foul but it had been a chippy game.
 


GophersInIowa said:
I initially hated the call but that angle shows it definitely was one.
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Yeah, that was 1000% a moving screen, not set, leg out, elbow out. Don't have a dog in the fight but I always get a kick out of people complaining about a call being made that costs their team a game and saying the refs can't make that call. And yet if you flip the scrip, they don't make the call and UCONN buries a game winner you now have the other half of the fans screaming that you have to make that call.

I know if I'm a ref I would rather have people mad at me for making the correct call in a tough situation as opposed to mad at me for missing the obvious call that led to the other team winning. People are going to be mad regardless because that is just how it works.

Box out on a missed free throw and UCONN still would have had time to take a game winning shot.
 

MNVCGUY said:
Yeah, that was 1000% a moving screen, not set, leg out, elbow out. Don't have a dog in the fight but I always get a kick out of people complaining about a call being made that costs their team a game and saying the refs can't make that call. And yet if you flip the scrip, they don't make the call and UCONN buries a game winner you now have the other half of the fans screaming that you have to make that call.

I know if I'm a ref I would rather have people mad at me for making the correct call in a tough situation as opposed to mad at me for missing the obvious call that led to the other team winning. People are going to be mad regardless because that is just how it works.

Box out on a missed free throw and UCONN still would have had time to take a game winning shot.
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The best is when people say "the refs shouldn't decide the outcome". The refs didn't. The player that committed the foul did.
 

GophersInIowa said:
The best is when people say "the refs shouldn't decide the outcome". The refs didn't. The player that committed the foul did.
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And then the losing team will go back and find all the times calls were not made or went against them and claim it was rigged. Winning team of course never does this however had they lost they certainly could have. I mean it is almost as if officiating is hard and calls get missed over the course of the game.

Was disappointed Geno made some sort of comment about how moving screens were not called against Iowa. He should be better than that. His player clearly committed the foul, it wasn't even boarderline (unless you are a UCONN fan in which case it was the worst call ever made of course). :)
 

MNVCGUY said:
And then the losing team will go back and find all the times calls were not made or went against them and claim it was rigged. Winning team of course never does this however had they lost they certainly could have. I mean it is almost as if officiating is hard and calls get missed over the course of the game.

Was disappointed Geno made some sort of comment about how moving screens were not called against Iowa. He should be better than that. His player clearly committed the foul, it wasn't even boarderline (unless you are a UCONN fan in which case it was the worst call ever made of course). :)
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I didn't watch the game close enough to know if those kinds of screens were being ignored all game. But either way, they got the call right at the end.
 

One thing UConn did really well was get all the way back on defense. Iowa is so good at rim running and Clark is one of the best I've ever seen at ong lead passes. The problem this time was that the Huskies did such a great job of getting all the way back to the rim. Shots that were layups for the Hawkeyes against other teams were highly contested last night.

And I'm glad to see the other angle on the call. From the floor level angle they showed on TV last night it didn't look much beyond a slight push with the elbow. When you can see Edwards was still moving and had her leg out it's a different matter
 

GophersInIowa said:
I didn't watch the game close enough to know if those kinds of screens were being ignored all game. But either way, they got the call right at the end.
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Same, don't recall a lot of plays jumping out at me in terms of missed calls but also wasn't overly invested in either team and was just watching the game.

Refs made the right call at the end. That was about as blatant of a moving screen as you can commit.
 

MNVCGUY said:
Same, don't recall a lot of plays jumping out at me in terms of missed calls but also wasn't overly invested in either team and was just watching the game.

Refs made the right call at the end. That was about as blatant of a moving screen as you can commit.
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The other thing is Geno responded to the call as if he knew it was the right call. He looked mad at the player, not the refs.
 

MNVCGUY said:
Same, don't recall a lot of plays jumping out at me in terms of missed calls but also wasn't overly invested in either team and was just watching the game.

Refs made the right call at the end. That was about as blatant of a moving screen as you can commit.
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I've found that most people who complain the loudest about officiating are probably not capable of effectively officiating a 6th grade level game, let alone a top level college game.
Of course, if a complainer is one of the rare people who IS capable of being a great official, you should probably get into it, because the profession needs you out there doing it right and showing the rest of the incompetent refs how it's done, instead of criticizing from the sofa.
 


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