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[QUOTE="NKR1978, post: 1234622, member: 186"]
Can someone who believes the refs did a fine job yesterday justify the following sequence:

Early second half, Cooney takes a jump shot and initiates contact with the defender. No foul called.

Later second half, the Nova offensive player initiates contact on a jump shot. This resulted in a foul called on Trevor.

The foul discrepancy was a joke. We aren't some west coast finesse. We have been near the top of the nation in steals the last 5 years. We play aggressive defense, of course we don't generally play the type of defense employed by the teams the dare referees to call the foul.

That defense should not be celebrated. The fact that a game in the 60's is now considered fairly high scoring is ruining the game. It's why no one outside of a core group of diehards care about college basketball until the Tournament.

Don't blame the teams for doing it because they generally get away with it, but the powers that run the sport are doing it a disservice. College football is exploding in popularity in an era of high powered offenses. But in spite of this, the NCAA is allowing these games to slow to a crawl with the longest shot clock in basketball and allowing these insanely aggressive defenses and block/charge rules that favor the defense.

It's depressing watching my favorite sport slide further into niche status.
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