Officials...

[Pantherpower]

Okay I'll start it. That crew made me long for an MVC officiating crew, and that's saying something. The black official was one of the worst to work a game in McLeod and the blocking call on Sonnen by "Curly" in front of the UNI bench made me want to puke--45 for GM took care of that for me.

[Herndon]

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So, I know this is completely off topic (and perhaps in poor taste) but you brought it up, so I'll ask.

What was up with your crowd booing our injured player? You guys have been a cool bunch, so it suprised me a little bit. Did they think he was faking or something?

[Trapped in California]

Probably was the student section, located at the far end of the court from that play. From the replay, they were probably sheilded from seeing his bobblehead act.

He's gonna need more tape on the shoudler after that fall. I am surprised that he came back and shot lights out.

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[Leatherhelmet]

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ESPN missed alot of replays for some reason. The call on Sonnen was not even in the picture when they showed it again. I wondered if anyone taped the game and what they thought of that call.

[Pantherpower]

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Can't speak for the students, but the first go round with him, we were running our offense and the officials stopped play. I could be wrong, but I thought the officials hold off on calling an injury timeout until the opposing team closes out their possession?

I personally didn't boo him, although I thought Coach Larranaga should have kept him out of the game after the second incident where it looked like he suffered a concussion. Props to the kid--he played a helluva game.

[Khan4Cats]

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So, I know this is completely off topic (and perhaps in poor taste) but you brought it up, so I'll ask.

What was up with your crowd booing our injured player? You guys have been a cool bunch, so it suprised me a little bit. Did they think he was faking or something?

I think there was some thought that he was faking, especially with as much as he was getting away with (holding on defense, pushing off on offense-barreling through players like a rugby player...) earlier in the game, and later for that matter.

Amazingly, it was one of the few calls the officials got right the whole game, you can't let play continue with a man down in the offensive lane-behind the play is a different thing. Personally, I was wondering if he might have had a concussion-especially with the puking later. Is there a rule on concussion testing?

Sad to see a contest get decided by such a discrepancy in how the game was called between the two squads. What GMU was allowed to do and get away with was completely reversed by what UNI was getting called for. Pathetic.

[Herndon]

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I thought Coach Larranaga should have kept him out of the game after the second incident where it looked like he suffered a concussion.

The same discussion was held at my place. Concussions are no joke, but he seemed to be clear headed and coherent.

I would rather lose a game than get a kid hurt, but I guess that's why they have a training staff, to determine if it was indeed a concussion, right?

If he was concussed, he shouldn't have come back in.

[Petrie Dish]

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Missed layups and not getting the ball inbounds had a lot more to do with the outcome than the officials.

[Khan4Cats]

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Missed layups and not getting the ball inbounds had a lot more to do with the outcome than the officials.

It is kind of hard to get the ball inbounds when your two primary cutters are being put in headlocks....

[Petrie Dish]

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It is kind of hard to get the ball inbounds when your two primary cutters are being put in headlocks....

True. I just hate the "blame the ref" thing when we lose.

[Cannic88]

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True. I just hate the "blame the ref" thing when we lose.

I agree, I hate to blame games on refs, but that blocking foul called on Sonnen and the no call when they threw the ball out of bounds really changed the game. That being said we played great and missed some crucial FT's

[Pantherpower]

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So do I, Petrie--but I'm sorry, this crew was grade F crap.

[AC#45]

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Yeah, it seems even when we travel our horrible refs come with us. All season we have been battling some horrid officials, side note: that tall ref that did the VCU/WSU game and called that last bogus fould sending rodriguez to the line does our games too. That block I think could have gone either way, maybe the ref thought he didnt give our guy room to catch the ball. They all missed at the end Tate holding your #11 on that inbounds, I saw him have your guy in an armbar practically and was SHOCKED they missed that. Especially seeing that it lead to a "steal". Sorry about our refs lol, great game.

[GMUAlum]

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Just want to point out the fouls were 16 to 19 - not much of a discrepancy.

Also, when you drive to the hoop, you tend to draw more fouls then when you drive to the basket then when you shoot 3's. You had 9 more attempts from behind the arc then we did and 'd wager more jump shots too. Finally, of those 19 fouls we did draw, 4 came in the final minute when you were trying to stop the clock

[Ten4Ten]

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ESPN missed alot of replays for some reason. The call on Sonnen was not even in the picture when they showed it again. I wondered if anyone taped the game and what they thought of that call.

There is a replay of the game on ESPN3.com