We were actually on the news this morning

['72 Orange]

ESPNnews just called it "The Crime at the Carrier"

(n) Ok it was a blown call but ESPN - please give it an effin rest!! Why the crusade? Ummm - let's see - SU benefitted from it - ergo it is a crime against humanity!!!

 

[Orangezoo]

No doubt--this team has a toughness to it, but still not good to see. Any team that slows us down will have a chance to beat us, especially given our rebounding and shooting woes.

in essence please let us get fab back and blow sju out of the building .. all the constant anti su press this year is annoying.

 

[NKR1978]

No doubt--this team has a toughness to it, but still not good to see. Any team that slows us down will have a chance to beat us, especially given our rebounding and shooting woes.

The rebounding is infuriating. I tend to limit my anger during games to the officials and other team, but the rebounding is just an embarrassment and if it isn't fixed soon then we're going to lose to 52-51 to Bumf*** state in the 2nd round.

 

[Orangemen]

If he did and they missed the call that sucks but it happens.

Isn't that the bottom line here?

We lost an NCAA game due to a missed call last year.

We've finally had good fortune, why p*ss all over it?

 

[orange03]

Isn't that the bottom line here?

We lost an NCAA game due to a missed call last year.

We've finally had good fortune, why p*ss all over it?

Yes. It shouldn't happen.

 

[Flacusian]

WVU was given an opportunity to play it out. They had a BS call give them the ball back with 6 seconds and we would have had no time to score.

AMEN! This full blown effort to overpublicize this blown call is way over the top. How about the over and back call against Scoop that resulted in our not having a chance to finish out that game? For cryin' out loud ESPN needs to give it a break. The game is over. Syracuse WON. Get TF over it already!

 

[BuffOrange]

Someone could ask a non-partisan #'s guru like Pomeroy for b'ball prospectus, but I think it's generously pessimistic from an SU standpoint to estimate in a tie game with 9sec's left as a superior home team, we're winning 20% in regulation and 55% in OT. Not exactly a vastly preferable scenerio to having a 30-35% look to win the game. Not even really in the same stratosphere as the missed call in WVU's game vs Cincy.

 

[dinno28]

I'm watching Uconn Notre Dame 16.6 second left and Uconn takes a three ... airball Uconn player says it was tipped... Notre Dame gets the ball ... wins by 2 (Uconn fouls immediately and then hits a three on next posession ... if the call was reviewed and ball given to UConn they likely win by 1 ... I doubt we will see that call breakdown on ESPN today ... If you review the tape of any one possession game this year you can find a missed call by the refs ... whether it happened in the first half or final seconds that one blown call could have been the difference... we don't give extra points for late game baskets

 

[rrlbees]

Whatever makes you sleep better at night. You act like calls didn't go against WVU either. I'm not arguing that most refs today suck, they do. But to miss a goaltending call in that situation was criminal.

I slept very well. The point is, not that bad calls didn't go both ways, but the goal tend was not as obvious to people on the floor as some other missed calls. Pretty simple stuff.

 

[orange03]

I slept very well. The point is, not that bad calls didn't go both ways, but the goal tend was not as obvious to people on the floor as some other missed calls. Pretty simple stuff.

It actually was as blatant a goaltending as I've ever seen. The fact the refs weren't in proper position is yet another error on their part.

 

[longtimefan]

It actually was as blatant a goaltending as I've ever seen.

I disagree that it was blatant. In real time, as I watched it, I knew that Baye had made contact with the ball near the backboard. But I thought that he might have hit it before it impacted the backboard--and then the contact after it hit the board would have been legal. Only when they played it in slow motion was it clear that all of Baye's contact occurred after the ball came off the board.

 

[SWC75]

Basketball is a constant action game. Football and baseball have built-in interruptions and further interruptions don't seem as intrusive as constantly looking into a replay booth would be in basketball, (or hockey or soccer or lacrosse).

 

[orangefan13]

The media only cares about the blown call because they want to screw us thats all that matters. them they have been doing it to us for years!!

WVU still had a chance to tie the game and failed. Thats the real news!

 

[Col. Bleep]

Fox was debating whether the Instant Replay should be available because of the blown call. Why not extend the controversy to include the missed "over and back" at the end of the Marquette game in the tourney last year or any number of really bad calls during the Pitt and Notre Dame games this year? The controversy is why are are "certain" NCAA refs soooooo bad? Could it be because they work way too many games a week? lax disciplinary system? cronyism?

I don't like the refs using replay for anything but clock issues.
It takes the human factor out of the game.
And that's part of it.
Saturday it was a big part.
Players aren't machines and neither are refs.

No doubt they missed the goaltending call.
This time a crucial mistake went in our favor.
Next time it may go the other way.
But that's the game...and it should be.

 

[Calcuse]

Face it...they are home-town Huskie fans and they are more than happy to denigrate anything the evil empire (Syracuse) does that can be blown up to make us look bad, especially on a day UCONN loses to an unranked opponent.