Has anyone else felt like the refs have missed numerous traveling calls on the other team this entire season? I swear there are at least 3-4 of these every game. Am I just delusional?
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I want to watch the replay but in real time I saw 6 or 7 likely walks not called. It was like an NBA game
Yea there were some bad ones today. There were two separate occasions where a Notre Dame player got trapped in the paint, traveled, and then kicked it out to a wide open shooter on the perimeter.
Some of the worst I've seen in a long time.
ND traveled multiple times
Phantom fouls on us
No charge call when Derkack gets trucked near the end of the game
Im glad we won otherwise I would still be going nuts
ND traveled multiple times
Phantom fouls on us
No charge call when Derkack gets trucked near the end of the game
Im glad we won otherwise I would still be going nuts
#7 loved the forearm push off when driving. Some of them were blatant.
I know it was the last play of the game and probably can’t call it, but that was a moving screen to get the last shot.
Officiating was pretty bad at the end of the Alabama/Houston game, too.
ND traveled a half dozen times in the 2nd half alone…all uncalled .
this tournament should invest some of that money in a real crew.
You realize that last night's game had Jeffery Anderson and Roger Ayers on it, who would be about the two most respected NCAA refs at the moment? Who should that hire that would constitute a "real crew"?
There's been a lot of questionable officiating in a lot of the games I've seen so far this year. Not sure if there are new points of emphasis that are distracting them, or what, but I hope it shakes out as the season progresses.
Really bad. Went from calling a bunch of ticky tack stuff earlier to letting them full on tackle each other with no calls.
You mean last night? They just do one game per day, so they only did the Rutgers-ND game.
I checked and Anderson and Ayers were 2 of the 3 refs on last year's National Title game. They both did a Final Four game in 2023, and in 2022, one of them did the Title game and the other a Final Four game.
Doesn't mean that they had a great night...but any issues certainly weren't due to the tournament cutting corners on officials, since those two are as "in demand" as they come.
I didn't know the third guy (Jerry Heater), but he's a guy that does a mix of ACC/A10/CAA/Big South games. He usually makes the cut to get a 1st round NCAA game, but that's been his ceiling.
Did you watch our game? The refs were so horrible that Greg Anthony called them out on national television
I had it on, but was mostly multi-tasking during it until the end so didn't watch it too closely.
I think in general throughout the country, they don't call traveling or moving screens like they used to. Especially those travels when I guy receives the ball on the move...what was a travel 10-20 (and maybe even 5) years ago isn't a travel today. And it used to be that big men setting a high screen needed to pretty much be a statue to avoid a call...now, they will let them arrive really late, and start their roll much earlier. And I don't love the block/charge interpretations as of late...I agree that they were calling too many charges, but the crackdown the last two seasons has swung the pendulum too far for my liking.
But I do think there is a level of consistency across the country in that most refs are calling those plays the same, even if I don't love it.
Agree with you on the foul shooting but you can’t discount the travels that were not called in which 3 blatant non travel calls led directly to 3 pointers so right there 9 points and that’s only the ones I remember. I will go back and rewatch the game to see but there had to be a dozen missed travel calls as they called only one on them all game
That was Tae Davis. A former Seton Hall player. He must've traveled at least 3-4 times in front of the officials wasn't called for one.
Some were questionable, but some were blatant like when the ND player got trapped in the paint and did 2 circles and threw it out for an open 3.
Travels from when their older brothers were kids aren't considered travels anymore.
Most egregious non-traveling call in Rutgers history (2011 BE tournament, second round):
“The three officials -- Jim Burr, Tim Higgins and Earl Walton -- came under heavy criticism for failing to officiate until the final buzzer of the second-round game at Madison Square Garden.
St. John's beat Rutgers 65-63 on Wednesday. But Rutgers should have had another possession when the Red Storm's Justin Brownlee, after stealing a pass from Rutgers' Gilvydas Biruta, traveled while celebrating and stepped out of bounds with 1.7 seconds remaining, according to the ESPN broadcast.
Brownlee then hurled the ball into the stands as his coach, Steve Lavin, was walking down the sideline to shake the hand of Rutgers coach Mike Rice. By that time, the officials had left the court.”
“The three officials -- Jim Burr, Tim Higgins and Earl Walton -- came under heavy criticism for failing to officiate until the final buzzer of the second-round game at Madison Square Garden.
St. John's beat Rutgers 65-63 on Wednesday. But Rutgers should have had another possession when the Red Storm's Justin Brownlee, after stealing a pass from Rutgers' Gilvydas Biruta, traveled while celebrating and stepped out of bounds with 1.7 seconds remaining, according to the ESPN broadcast.
Brownlee then hurled the ball into the stands as his coach, Steve Lavin, was walking down the sideline to shake the hand of Rutgers coach Mike Rice. By that time, the officials had left the court.”
