2025 NCAA Tourney Thread

[Scoop Snoop]

Your obsession with refs, calls, non calls and hundreds of posts in almost every game thread, MU or not is well known. The refs did not affect him grabbing a basketball. He was just non existent for his team last night.  He will declare for draft and some team will take a high flyer on him because he does have skills and the height.

Has the final score of a game ever been changed because of a review of a ref's call? Obsession is the perfect word to describe his posting history. It certainly is not rational.

[The Sultan]

Has the final score of a game ever been changed because of a review of a ref's call? Obsession is the perfect word to describe his posting history. It certainly is not rational.

Blaming the refs are for people who lack both perspective and a real understanding of basketball.

[Pakuni]

Congrats to the lineup of 25-year-olds

Average age of Florida and Houston starting lineup: 21.6 years old.
Marquette's starting lineup is older than both.

[MuggsyB]

Blaming the refs are for people who lack both perspective and a real understanding of basketball.

But there was still bad officiating.  Duke gagged and Houston deserved to win, but these guys make a lot of horrid calls. 

[The Sultan]

But there was still bad officiating.  Duke gagged and Houston deserved to win, but these guys make a lot of horrid calls. 

Welcome to college basketball! Are you new here?

[Billy Hoyle]

100%.

The two main Duke-related things that really hit home while watching the game:


++ Proctor, as mentioned by several Scoopers, absolutely killed Duke. He went from video-game Steph in Duke's first couple of NCAAT games, to OK Jop in the next two, to Jon Starks in this one. By the end, he was passing up wide-open 3s (when he wasn't missing a crucial FT).

Just as crucial as the missed front end of the one-and-one (ask Texas Tech about those) was his baseline drive where he dribbled the ball off his leg and out of bounds with under 2 minutes left and Duke up 7. On the next possession Houston got two FTs to cut the lead to 5. A game to forget for Proctor.

[MuggsyB]

Welcome to college basketball! Are you new here?

Refs need to do better Fluffy.  The fact that they consistently suck is a problem.
 

[Uncle Rico]

Refs need to do better Fluffy.  The fact that they consistently suck is a problem.
 

Centralize the sport as hire more officials.  Make it a full-time gig with constant evaluation.  Until that happens, it'll continue to be bad or inconsistent.

[MuggsyB]

Centralize the sport as hire more officials.  Make it a full-time gig with constant evaluation.  Until that happens, it'll continue to be bad or inconsistent.

Agreed. 

[WhiteTrash]

Centralize the sport as hire more officials.  Make it a full-time gig with constant evaluation.  Until that happens, it'll continue to be bad or inconsistent.

I agree, but I still think the improvements will be viewed as marginal.

When I watch a game I'm truly impartial about, my observations of bad calls goes down by about 90%.

[Pakuni]

Jason Whitlock has identified the obvious problem with poor officiating in college basketball.

https://x.com/WhitlockJason/status/1908910843191779351

[The Sultan]

Centralize the sport as hire more officials.  Make it a full-time gig with constant evaluation.  Until that happens, it'll continue to be bad or inconsistent.

I will say that I have noticed that refs do not pack their schedules as much as they used to. I wonder if conferences are paying them more, but with the stipulation that they work less games.

It's hard to make them full time employees though.

[wadesworld]

Guessing Florida and Houston wish they would've just punted their conference tournaments so they'd have a shot to make a run in the NCAA Tournament.  Asking these kids to play 3-4 days in a row, then get 4-5 days off and have to play in the NCAA Tournament is just too much for 18-23 year olds these days.

[Shooter McGavin]

Guessing Florida and Houston wish they would've just punted their conference tournaments so they'd have a shot to make a run in the NCAA Tournament.  Asking these kids to play 3-4 days in a row, then get 4-5 days off and have to play in the NCAA Tournament is just too much for 18-23 year olds these days.

Ha! Yep. That narrative is ridiculously silly. 

[Billy Hoyle]

Jason Whitlock has identified the obvious problem with poor officiating in college basketball.

https://x.com/WhitlockJason/status/1908910843191779351

Mr. Whitlock:

[cheebs09]

Mr. Whitlock:

Even that would be generous for what he typically spews.

[Billy Hoyle]

Even that would be generous for what he typically spews.

I can't say I have read or listened to much he's said since he left ESPN and the Sports Reporters, but I can't imagine a more deranged take than that.

[MU82]

What a douchenozzle.

[Uncle Rico]

Whitlock knows his audience

[MU82]

An audience of douchenozzles.

And dentists.

[MU82]

Men's NCAA Tournament has its biggest TV audience since 2019 - 18.9M viewers. Helped by the earlier tip-off, perhaps?

[The Sultan]

Men's NCAA Tournament has its biggest TV audience since 2019 - 18.9M viewers. Helped by the earlier tip-off, perhaps?

Going chalk helps.

[wadesworld]

Men's NCAA Tournament has its biggest TV audience since 2019 - 18.9M viewers. Helped by the earlier tip-off, perhaps?

I heard NIL and transfer portal ruined college athletics.