I've long since accepted that teams in the B1G (and some other conferences) are going to get the benefit of the whistle at home. It wouldn't bother me except for the fact that the Gophers don't seem to get that same courtesy on their home floor. There were multiple calls tonight where the officials seemed almost excited to blow the whistle on the Gophers.
1. The Coffey collision: This was the basic moving screen off handoff call the officials have called all year...except the contact was much more severe.
2. The Murphy shot to the neck: We saw Murphy called for a very strange hook and hold at Illinois. Tonight he gets hooked which is an offensive foul and takes contact to the head/neck which is a flagrant 1. Somehow neither is called
3. The Dupree charge: #5 is riding Dupree in to the Penn State defender.
I would have been upset by any of these calls on the road, but at home it's especially tough to swallow.
1. The Coffey collision: This was the basic moving screen off handoff call the officials have called all year...except the contact was much more severe.
2. The Murphy shot to the neck: We saw Murphy called for a very strange hook and hold at Illinois. Tonight he gets hooked which is an offensive foul and takes contact to the head/neck which is a flagrant 1. Somehow neither is called
3. The Dupree charge: #5 is riding Dupree in to the Penn State defender.
I would have been upset by any of these calls on the road, but at home it's especially tough to swallow.