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[QUOTE="Ghost, post: 1309974, member: 581"]
Eh, Villanova was far worse, but:

1.  The amount of abuse Rak endures is troubling.  Why he bothers to play defense by fighting for position on the other end to front his guy, or get around him is beyond me.  Clearly lowering your shoulder, repeatedly bashing yourself into the other players back. and tomahawking  the arms intermittently is the way to go.  Also, push off-alot if they put it on the floor.  Except in the first 2 minutes of the second half. Rak needs to wise up.  :(

2.  Cooney at one point seemed exasperated that they wouldn't call the moving screen on Pitt and talked to one of the officials about it.  Apparently they took it under advisement and about an hour later called Rak for a moving screen.  Well done, TC.

The Pitt player pretty much drove TC down to the foul line and had him wrapped up on the possession where he finally broke down and talked to the official.  He begged the official to no avail...well, see above.

3.  Did anyone else notice that it looked like Ron Patterson was talking  to the official as he left the court after the game?  Not aggressively, but was walking off saying something pretty clearly.

4.  That travel was impossible to miss at the end - also looked out of bounds, but in full speed that aspect was hard to tell for sure.  The travel was not.

5.  Again, officials call nada in the first half, open the second half call some light contact on Rak, and then let it all go again.  It's as if they all go to the same school of how to be horrible officials.  Okay, boys, let them molest him in the first, then we'll send a message in the first minute of the second half, then let him molest the  out of him again.  Rise, wash, repeat.  It's nonsense.

Once again I'm going to advocate for letting the players call their own fouls...I'm 93.28% certain you would see a better officiated game.
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