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Message: [QUOTE="CardiacCuse, post: 4171206, member: 6979"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/insider/story/_/id/33281961/jay-bilas-unveils-1-68-men-college-basketball-rankings-version-20[/URL] I complain a ton about reffing of SU games...the quality is often very sporadic...sometimes borderline criminal. After reading this piece by Jay Bilas, I feel at least that its not only me. I agree with him 100% He says that fouls called are at an all-time low in the sport and that coaches are teaching players to "defend" based on how the game is called - basically to foul every possession as they know they will get away with it...villanova is one the teams for sure...but they are many others. I think for this particualr year especially the current envirnoment of looking the other way to physical play...hits this team very hard... [LIST=1] [*]they are often overmatched athletically (although usually have the height advantage)... [*]beyond that with a short rotation playing in overly physical games just wears the team down and they have nothing left in the last 5 minutes of games...where they have blow in a bunch of times this year. [*]On top of all that, it seems that SU plays to avoid fouling almost all of the time and since that is their "normal" it seems refs call it very tight on them frequently. [/LIST] We see Jimmy and Jim complain a lot about non-calls and they arent always complaining with a point, but they often are in the VT game, the foulshots were like 20-4 or something in favor of VT - that was the ballgame - and I legit think some calls were missed in favor of VT (even though tv teddy and his crew missed some in favor of SU too) Im often watching on a laptop and cant be sure on a lot of questionable plays but I have seen buddy get hacked a lot with no calls this season for sure... I think if the refs called things properly...the team's record is a bit different this year. [/QUOTE]

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