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Message: [QUOTE="RF2044, post: 4414089, member: 40"] I can -- in 2010, the Wes Johnson year where we finished the year ranked #1 and were a #1 seed in the NCAA tournament -- we won at home against a ranked West Virginia team that took us down to the wire. The refs swallowed their whistles in the final minute, and didn't call a bunch of stuff down the stretch that probably should have. Huggins was furious after the game, the missed calls were obvious -- and our "W" was aided greatly by some preferential no-calls. But we rarely get preferential treatment [at least in basketball] at home, to the degree that other blue chip programs do. Kansas, Duke, UK -- there are games when the refs won't let 'em lose. Example -- when that terrific Cornell team in 2011 [might be off by a year or so] had Kansas on the ropes in the final minute, only to have a billion calls go against them that enabled Kansas to squeak out a win. Massive influence on the game's outcome. [/QUOTE]