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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 2533356, member: 289"] What I remember about those Pitt teams was that they - even more than Thompson's Georgetown teams, Calhoun's UCONN teams or Pitino's Louisville teams- pushed the envelope on what they could do defensively to the very limit. Hand-checking, pushing, shoving, tripping, etc. They would commit so many fouls that the refs couldn't possibly call all of them. meanwhile, we would be called for touch fouls on the other end. the refs call what is unusual. they will call any contact by a finesse team and only the worst fouls of a physical team. The box score will show that a roughly equal number of fouls were called on both teams but that didn't mean that the game was being called the same way on both ends. [/QUOTE]