david aka the TYZ
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Loss sucked. I had little hope we would beat UConn on their floor. UConn may not be as good this year as in past years but they still match up well vs. us. Brimah being in foul trouble should've been enough to put things in our favor but the refs nixed that. That Ellis T was complete garbage. Complete garbage. It's March, should've pulled the players in and warned them. To only T up one team clearly shows a bias in my opinion. I saw three different angles and every one at least showed players in the mix before Ellis' push. On top of it it was a one hand "get off me" push, not an in your face shove. Just garbage. To make things worse Boatwright should've been T'd for grabbing the ball from KJ five feet into the UC bench. He got pulled aside and warned. No consistency. The lack of calls on Caupain at the end were bad but honestly on the first one Caupain tucked the ball like a running back and I personally hate that players can do that. One school of thinking is the hand is an extension of the ball and in a case of a tuck, wouldn't the arm be? He doesn't get that shot off with ball under his arm so I personally am kind of OK with a no call because I've seen us get called in fouls like that and hate it. He did get hammered though and typically you see a foul there. The other thing I want to mention is it surprises me no one has mentioned Caupain's banked three as the shot clock expired mid way through the second half. As much as we hated UConn's we got one of our own. UConn hit one in the first half too on a forced shot but he actually had a good look at it and squared the shot off.
One more thing listening to ESPN ride UConn's nuts was annoying to the nth degree but to be honest without UConn our conference probably isn't on ESPN, so...
One more thing listening to ESPN ride UConn's nuts was annoying to the nth degree but to be honest without UConn our conference probably isn't on ESPN, so...