On the replay, you can see a ref put his hand up and whistle the ball dead before Payne touches it. What I would not tell was if it touched the stanchion before Payne touched it.
Yeah, we definitely caught a break there as he should have kept the ball in his hands if at all humanly possible in order to get to the line. Thankfully it worked in our favor.
If I were reffing, that play would have been a block. On the other end of the floor it would most definitely have been a charge.
Oddly enough, I remember reading an article years ago about some stats that are surprisingly good indicators of whether or not a prospect will turn out and a couple of them were surprising to me untilI put them into context.
I still can't believe he gave up the ball--with a blind panic pass, no less! That mistake was the difference at the end of the game, no doubt. The Gophs were gifted one for sure, but they had to accept the gift (get a good shot on the other end and make their free throws).
He touched it.
For me, there was also a mental aspect of it. The end of the year felt like there was a little bit of quit in the team. I am really glad I was wrong about that.
No.
I'm looking at the NET Top-25 and I dont see how you get to that thought. But you do you, ETP.
BYU, St. Mary's, San Diego State, New Mexico, Dayton, Michigan State, Colorado....I'd rather play them at home than Butler on the road.
Can't have been a blown call. I've been told the refs are always against us.
No way. Not BYU, Saint Mary's, New Mexico, or Colorado. That's preposterous.
I get where you are coming from but I guess I didn't really pick up on any sort of quit down the stretch. They definitely struggled but still felt like they were out there fighting to win each night and just not able to put it together.
I don't think they reviewed it because there was like 2:16 left in the game. I think the refs got together and changed the call.
That would make sense because Payne definitely touched it.
So you determined the win was good by analyzing their record against teams you determined are good? Isn't that exactly what the computer is doing?
It looked like we were gonna foul, but the Butler player was running around like it's flag football and we just couldn't get him. Lucky for us he decides to pass it and Fox gets the steal and as they say, the rest is history.We avoided a major discussion on coaching tonight by getting that steal with something like 10 seconds to go. Almost everyone fouls in that situation but we didn't. The outcome was amazing, for sure.
He stepped on the baseline before he touched it, so it shouldn't have mattered.
So, were some of Elijah's previous airballs during other games also altered, ever so slightly, and just ignored or missed?
I thought you were a fan of the Gophers my mistake. I was responding to the clown take that the Big East was the 2nd best conference.
5-0 in the tourney