While frankly it was a huge douche move by Crean, I wouldn't put it past a lot of college coaches to do the same thing in that case... Doesn't make it right or acceptable, though.

I have no doubt that something out of that timeout-huddle led him to do that FLOP.  I called it and thought it as it happened and the replays they showed afterward gave me all I needed to think it a cheap flop.  Tirico and Dakich in their own way even said as much.

They were in a bad spot so I don't have a problem with it no matter how much it may be frowned on but u need a miracle in that situation. And an elbow did hit his face even tho it wasn't malicious

But the real problem here is the idiotic rule that requires the refs to go to the monitor to review potential elbows.

And he probably shouldn't have. I'm not that upset. This kind of thing happens. It's only a slight jump from telling a kid if he gets fouled to make SURE the refs know it. And any coach who wouldn't tell their players to sell a foul (a real foul), isn't doing it right.

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Coaching like this just doesn't belong in the game.  I've lost even more respect for Crean.

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Wow, what a bullshit move. It looks like Sheehey is leaning his head on the guy's elbow so that he'll move it right into his face. He's not even trying to defend or steal, he's just sitting there specifically to take a shot to the face.

Sure seems like it.

I wonder how much time Crean devotes in practice to fake fouls.

I wonder how much time Crean devotes in practice to fake fouls.

I wonder how much time Crean devotes in practice to fake fouls.

"Take the fall, act hurt, get indignant." -Gordon Bombay

The main thing that makes me doubt that Crean instructed his players to flop is that it was Will Sheehy. Guy probably falls down after getting out of bed in the morning and looks around for a call.

But the charge that Mbakwe tried to take against Zeller late in the half looked like a flop as well. He started leaning back and falling down before Zeller even made contact with him and he look astonished that a charge wasn't called. Different situations and time in the game, but my thought is a lot of flops happen out there and most of them are probably advised to the player in some way.

Is flopping in BBall any different than a punter flailing around whenever a defender gets within 2 inches of his foot?

When that happens everyone just laughs and shakes there head and says "thats football", who cares if Crean told a kid to flop, if the Refs call BS crap like that then the coaches deserve to go after that advantage. 

When I saw this live I thought maybe he did catch an elbow but after seeing the replay a few times it sure seems like a flop. It reminds me of the original Mighty Ducks movie when he coaches them to flop the entire game (when they were still "District 5" and sucked). 

to run around headbutting the other team's elbows and then falling down and start thrashing around wildly. Maybe you can even slam your head on the floor as you fall, so that you start to bleed and get blood all over. That will surely get someone thrown out.

It didn't even look convincing in the least.  And Crean calling the timeout right before to mastermind the whole thing, then yelling at the refs immediately afterward to review it were clinchers.  

The Big Ten refs need to start dealing with this problem, otherwise unscrupulous coaches like Crean will abuse it even more.  All it will take is for them to call a few technicals on floppers and all this crap will stop pretty quickly.  

Anyone else think there should be consequences for flopping in College Basketball, like there is in the NHL ("diving" penalties) and pro soccer (yellow cards for extreme flopping)? Why not give Sheehey a Technical there?

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Great job by Sheehey: if you put your face at a player's elbow level, it's pretty hard not to get hit.  It's like the old boxing joke about "leading with your face" but he really did it.

Describing this situation with the term "flop," to me, diminishes the nature of what were talking about here.  Its one thing to try and draw a conventional charge call by initiating contact and then exagerating the impact to maximize effect.  It could be debated that this is "part of the game" but is usually labelled "floping."  If this Sheehey play is what it appears to be (from the circumstantial evidence) this isn't a flop; its way beyond that.  Its flat dirty.  

This is not a regular, run-of-the-mill charge/blocking foul situation.  This is about a rule that has been implemented for player safety which, if the implications are correct, was used to bail out a team in a "no hope" situation.  Getting two shots and another possession was just about IU's only hope there, and the only way to accomplish that was to deliberately place a players face at elbow level of the opponent so that contact would be likely, resulting in a review and possible flagrant foul call.  Furthermore, given the apptitude of some of these refs, its not exactly a shot in the dark.    

The funny thing is that while I was watching the game, when this happened, everyone in the room exclaimed AT THE SAME TIME "did that dude just put his face into the guy's elbow on purpose?!?"  It appeared incredibly purposeful, and the replay made it seem even more so.  We were all skeptical but, I'm not going to accuse someone of something like that without more to go on.  

Now you take into account the timing of the TO, the clip of what Crean appears to be doing during the TO, that this occured directly after the TO, Crean's immediate reaction to the incident (screaming for a review without a moment's hesitation) and the implications are pretty strong; not conclusive, but pretty strong.

Calling this a "flop" is a slap in the face to honest flop artists everywhere.  

This is dirty, bushleague, "hurts the integrity of the game" type stuff.  Again, if true...

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There's this (but then they lost). And I think he drew a T when he dunked and then mouthed off against Illinois (also lost).

And I feel like there was something else that he did that was really annoying.

Though, it seems like Indiana tends to lose when he's a moron so maybe I should just embrace it.

I'm sure he said if you get hit even slightly by an elbow, elaborate it. While a little sketchy, its not really news worthy....

to hate Crean & IU.An obvious,pre-planned attempt to get a bogus flagrant foul.Fortunately the game was in The Barn or the refs may have bought the charade.

So what exactly is the replay policy here?  If the replay had shown that the Minnesota player's elbow had caught Sheehey, is it an automatic foul on him even if accidental?