Hats Off To The Panthers

[TravelingPanther]

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There was no exchange. The ODU coach told Jake after the game he wasn't directing anything at him and Jake said no problem. I'ts a nothing story that a lot of people seem to be worked up about.

There was DEFINITELY an exchange.

Jake was talking to the ref, their coach decided to enter the conversation and looked right at Jake and said something with a hand gesture. Jake responded, he responded, and it went on for a little bit. He might have been "talking to the ref" but whatever he said was aimed at Jake.

[olivestreet95]

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Hey ODUfan757........there is no longer a reason for you to even visit our site so don't worry about it. You and your trolls joined in this week and talked your fair share of smack......we responded in kind......and now hold your breath because this when it starts to get good......the game was PLAYED......and we stomped on you guys even without our center! So, lick your wounds, agree that your team got out played all night long and unless ODU gets an at large bid and we meet in the big dance by some freak of nature then and only then would you have a legitimate reason for logging back onto PANTHER NATION. Until then zip it......

GO PANTHERS!

[ProwlingPanther]

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Sincere thanks to the ODU fans and MSU fan. As a Die-Hard Panther fan I appreciate the well wishes.

What a great game and a great atmosphere!!

Student Section was amazing and I really liked the "White-Out"

In response to some of the talks about the refs and yes I did watch the game again on tv. They were very bad!! Inconsistent all game and the bad calls really started to come when we had a double digit lead or were making a run.

The refs really felt that they had to control the game rather than let the players play.

The Adam Koch vs Geral Lee matchups were as unfair as I have seen. As I said, I re-watched the game and at least three of Koch's fouls were unwarranted. Yet, on the other end of the court he would be double teamed and slapped at with no-calls.

Does anyone recall the O'Rear shot as the shot clock expired? Koch grabbed the Offensive rebound with three ODU players around him, was CLEARLY fouled on the wrist during the attempted put back and they called the ball out of bounds on Koch. Ref was right on top of the play and blew it.. RIDICULOUS!!

The last two minutes of the game we were clearly hacked at times during ODU's full court press and there were some clear no-calls. On one occassion, they opted to call a travel on Kwadzo instead.(funny part was ODU was clearly TRYING to foul him on that play)

The Johnny Moran push off foul on the inbounds pass was ridiculous as well. Granted I can see where there was a slight push but that is fairly common and the ref that made the call was CLEARLY out to get us at that point. I don't see how you make that call when the contact didn't have an impact on the play. He was the same panzy that tried to MADDOG Jake a few moments later.

Me and some other fans started chanting Donaghy and we never saw him on our end of the court for the rest of the game.

There were four fouls in a thirty second span in the second half when we started to take the wind out of ODU's sails. Lee was stuck at 11 pts for a long time until the refs decided to get involved.

Anyway, if you re-watch the game and I strongly suggest you do. I think you will agree. Anytime we made a run or got too big of a lead 2/3 of the CAA refs started making some calls to change the tempo.

I am sure there were bad calls the other way as well but in no way does it compare. It certainly wasn't equally bad.

I guess they used to put weights on Seabiscuit to make the races more fair. I think that is what the refs were trying to do. We played 5 against 7 and still won by 9 on National Television.

Great Win!!

Panther N8-Out!!

[BCPanther]

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I will take the Big 12 guys we get over the ACC guys they brought last night anytime.

Give me Higgins!

[jman2004]

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Jacobson yelled across the court at the ref to see what the foul was. ODU's coach turned to Jacobson and said something to the effect of "his arms were wrapped around him". On TV it appeared that he said this with a smile. Jacobson didn't hear him and shouted back something to the effect of "why are you talking to me?"

Saunders and the other ESPN guy had a good laugh over it because they said while ODU's coach appeared to be harmless, Jacobson's reaction was warranted because coaches talking to each other like that mid-game, is frowned upon.

It really wasn't a big deal.

[KansasCityPanther]

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JayJ79 I have to respectfully disagree......the number of calls against UNI and when they came in the game killed our momentum. If memory serves me correctly we were up by double digits if not at least 8 when we got 4 ticky tack fouls in a row which brought the butterflies right back into the game.....the calls were momentum killers....after the large amount of bad calls on UNI the refs had to make make up calls on ODU....I have not seen Ben that animated in a long time...he was pissed off and rightfully so.

Jake also said in the post game that he agreed with the calls, he had to complain because that is his job after 4 calls in a row that go against the Cats. He indicated that they guys needed to play smarter.

[JagsNCats]

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Jake also said in the post game that he agreed with the calls, he had to complain because that is his job after 4 calls in a row that go against the Cats. He indicated that they guys needed to play smarter.

What else is he supposed to say after a game? Most coaches know that if they rip on the officials they will be subjected to disciplinary action. After attending the game last night and watching it again today, these CAA officials struggled in the 2nd half. Johnny's push off foul occurs almost every possession by an offensive player trying to create separation when a defender is closely defending them. That official was a control freak. He's the one who gave Luke a delay of game warning after the ODU player put the ball down in the middle of the lane. Lucas didn't have to go pick it up. He could've stood along the baseline and waited for the official to give it to him.
The intentional foul call was weak. Any official that has done one of our games knows that Kwadzo makes a living getting those calls at the end of the game. Lee got the benefit of almost every call. That's why he had most of his points at the line. We could go on and on with calls against both teams. None of the 3 refs would survive the season in the MVC. You'd think that with this being one of the two prime time Bracket Buster games that we would've had the best officials that were available!

[Victory_For_UNI]

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[Leatherhelmet]

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I was wondering about the delay of game call.

I'm not sure what the rule is but I don't think I have ever seen it called against the offensive team when the other team is setting up a press.

Usually the team setting up the press tries to delay to give it time to set up the defense.

That was a bizarre "warning".

[run&blade]

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I was under the north hoop, UNI was mugging Lee when he didn't even have the ball. They literally were hooking Lee around his back and pulling on him. The guy behinded me noticed it also, couldn't believe they were not calling it. They were not bumping, UNI was flat out hooking Lee around the waist and holding on.

If they don't call it, keep doing it but wow, that was beyond physical.

I can't complain about the refs hosing UNI over when they were letting UNI do what they were doing underneath to Lee.

Lee was a beast, the real deal for sure.

[JayJ79]

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so you're saying that they were a bunch of hookers?

[olivestreet95]

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Jake also said in the post game that he agreed with the calls, he had to complain because that is his job after 4 calls in a row that go against the Cats. He indicated that they guys needed to play smarter.

I suppose one could argue that it is also his job not to criticize the ref's in the post game press conference. After all his team won the game so at that point it would not much matter what he thought of the referring so why complain about it? I simply think we would have won the game by a greater margin if the questionable calls did not always come when the momentum changed (in UNI's favor) or when we were on some type of run.

GO PANTHERS!!!!!

[JayJ79]

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All of the fouls called on UNI were legitimate fouls.
Some of them may have been things that the officials had let players get away with earlier in the game, but that doesn't stop them from being legitimate fouls.

[06panther10]

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All of the fouls called on UNI were legitimate fouls.
Some of them may have been things that the officials had let players get away with earlier in the game, but that doesn't stop them from being legitimate fouls.

oh, is that so?

[UNIpanther99]

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All of the fouls called on UNI were legitimate fouls.
Some of them may have been things that the officials had let players get away with earlier in the game, but that doesn't stop them from being legitimate fouls.

I think even the ref who called it would say he might have blown Adam's 5th foul. Otherwise, I thought it was actually a decently officiated game.