2018 NCAA Tournament thread

[Spaniel with a Short Tail]

Macura irritates me as well when we play him, but he got 2 bad calls on excellent defensive plays that I saw.

[Norm]

Can't believe I'm saying this, but those last two foul calls on Macura were terrible. He got all ball on the block and the steal and picked up two fouls on both. Really bad calls.

[jesmu84]

I've watched more NCAA games in the last 4 days than the entire season (MU games not withstanding). 3 things I've consistently disagreed with refs on:

1. Charges - many times, offensive players are already in the air and defensive players slide underneath afterwards.
2. Carrying/palming - happens way too frequently and called not often enough
3. Basket interference - lots of balls still "in the cylinder" that go uncalled

[Norm]

Refs also letting teams trying to come from behind get away with lots of fouls in their attempts to claw back in to the game.

[Norm]

#5 for FSU is a fouling machine right now and refs are letting him do anything he wants.

[MUEng92]

I'm starting to wish basketball had yellow cards like soccer for embellishment.  There have been 3-4 plays I've seen just today on which the refs thankfully didn't fall for the fake crap. It just seems like not getting a foul on a fake head jerk isn't enough punishment.

[Mr. Nielsen]

I've watched more NCAA games in the last 4 days than the entire season (MU games not withstanding).

Really. Wow. I watch parts of 40 per week.

[forgetful]

Can't believe I'm saying this, but those last two foul calls on Macura were terrible. He got all ball on the block and the steal and picked up two fouls on both. Really bad calls.

Those two calls really changed the momentum of the game.

[MUEng92]

The refs hate Macura too

[Spaniel with a Short Tail]

effin X. Been bricking FTs all night.

[Herman Cain]

Bluett having a terrible game.

[nyg]

Thank Blueitt, he has 6 turnovers, three in last two minutes.  Just terrible ones also. 

[MUEng92]

The turnover leading to a layup and foul a couple minutes ago was very MU like

[Eldon]

Refs also letting teams trying to come from behind get away with lots of fouls in their attempts to claw back in to the game.

Was just thinking the same thing

[Spaniel with a Short Tail]

un-effin-believable

[nyg]

Great play.  Hold ball and have Kanter take that shot, really.....

[MUEng92]

Wow that 3 was short AND to the left

[forgetful]

Wow, airballing a wide open 3. 

They don't even hustle down the court.  Had no apparent play called. 

Can an end of game possession be more mis-managed. 

[GGGG]

X blows it. Second year in a row a BE doesn't progress a 1 seed to the S16.

[ChitownSpaceForRent]

Bluiett with an absolute clunker.

[MUEng92]

Xavier just gave away MUs money. Idiots

[BM1090]

X blows it. Second year in a row a BE doesn't progress a 1 seed to the S16.

All on Nova again.

[GB Warrior]

Well that's a real kick in the groin for the Big East. Seton Hall put up a good game, but nothing to dispel that this is Nova and a bunch of wannabes.

[BossplayaOtto]

Just horrible play down the stretch from X. Macura got jobbed on a bunch of calls but Bluiett was terrible in crunch time.

This tourney is nuts!

[GoldenZebra]

Man X just choked.