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Message: [QUOTE="mantonio, post: 159395, member: 709"] You have a good knack for putting things into perspective, but I have to take you on about officiating. The refs absolutely allowed & encouraged Cooley to cheat like a backroom gambler tonight. He was pushing & shoving with his hands & elbows, AND went over the back of Syracuse rebounders more times than I can count. The excuse that a stronger player only "appears" to be committing fouls is a bogus claim. You can't mask shoving with unauthorized appendages. Cooley should have fouled out by the beginning of the second half, but he was given too much grace, & therefore it made a huge difference. I make the viable assertion that many bad things happened to create this loss, & if any ONE of them didn't exist, Syracuse wins this game with relative ease. Cooley not being held to a good standard by the refs IS one of those things... [/QUOTE]