NCAA Flagrant Foul 1 definition
A flagrant 1 foul (men's) or unsportsmanlike foul (women's) involves excessive or severe contact during a live ball, including especially when a player "swings an elbow and makes illegal, non-excessive contact with an opponent above the shoulders". This offense includes the former "intentional foul" of fouling an opposing player to prevent an easy breakaway score. In women's basketball only, the unsportsmanlike foul also includes contact dead-ball technical fouls. The penalty for a flagrant 1 or unsportsmanlike foul is two free throws and a throw-in for the opposing team at the out-of-bounds spot nearest the foul.
How in the hell did Simpson grabbing a jersey as his arm was getting pinned to the defender, BY the defender, a fk'n Flagrant Foul?! That was, by far, the worst call of the season! That is incomprehensible to call that bullshit! After an entire game of rock fighting, the refs call this bullshit with the game on the line, 30 seconds left? This game has left me apoplectic! The fans would have been justified in pelting the officials with their cups at the end of this!
February 4th, 2020 at 9:23 PM ^
The fouls in this game were ridiculous but I will say there were missed calls on both teams. It sucks because we got hurt with the worst one but so many missed calls.
February 4th, 2020 at 9:24 PM ^
Just gotta move on and pray for a great shooting night against sparty
February 4th, 2020 at 9:25 PM ^
February 4th, 2020 at 9:25 PM ^
It's instinct to reach out and grab something when you're falling. To consider that some sort of "unsportmanlike" act would be mind-blowing at any point in the game, but especially with 30 seconds left, knowing that it could decide the game's outcome.
February 5th, 2020 at 12:21 PM ^
The ref admitted to Juwan that Simpson didn't do anything intentional, he was just trying to stop his fall. But the law was applied right down to the letter.
February 4th, 2020 at 9:27 PM ^
For what officials are paid, they should be held to a higher standard.
Whatever checks/balances are done in this field are underwhelming.
February 5th, 2020 at 11:14 AM ^
Aren't most refs part-time employees? Basically, independent contractors paid on a per game basis? That's probably a big part of the problem.
February 4th, 2020 at 9:28 PM ^
I think it was the evil grimace on Simpson's face.
February 4th, 2020 at 9:29 PM ^
Hot garbage. Three home games in a row. I smell a rat.
February 4th, 2020 at 9:31 PM ^
Crisler is a pit of a stadium and it doesn’t help most of the old folks are in the front rows. (I’m eligible for free pancakes at IHOP so...)
February 4th, 2020 at 9:39 PM ^
Crisler is actually a pretty nice venue now, since the renovations. We could use more students close to the court though.
February 5th, 2020 at 6:27 PM ^
How old do you have to be for free pancakes? I'm getting up there.
February 4th, 2020 at 9:31 PM ^
I remember against OSU in 2013, Craft literally hit GRIII’s head at the end of either overtime or regulation w/ his hand and it didn’t get called an F1 (and this was at a time when any contact above the shoulders was being called an F1). Fucking Garza earlier this year elbowed Castleton in the head (and drew blood!) when he purposefully flung his arms out high to box out on a loose ball and he didn’t even get called for a common foul. But somehow grabbing your opponents jersey as you fall face-first after being shoved to protect yourself is 2 FTs for the other team and the ball. What a fucking joke.
February 4th, 2020 at 9:43 PM ^
If this is a flagrant 1, Garza gets about 7 of these a game with his flailing arms.
February 4th, 2020 at 9:57 PM ^
Isaiah Thomas (pro) got tossed from a game for “pushing” a ref, Cockburn knocked a ref out and got nothing.
Any given night it’s going to go any given way, Michigan is in a slump and poor officiating feels like icing on the cake. It’s just bad luck.
February 5th, 2020 at 9:46 AM ^
99% agree with you, except for "and the ball." It was going to be OSU ball whether the tech was called or not.
February 4th, 2020 at 9:31 PM ^
It's a new rule.
If you get thrust toward the floor like a pinball, you can't grasp to ease your fall.
The refs and the TV crew can't see the obvious.
February 4th, 2020 at 9:36 PM ^
It wasn't live ball once the foul was called and it wasn't excessive or severe.
February 4th, 2020 at 9:36 PM ^
The ref said "bringing a player to the ground" was the reason for the flagrant 1. But Z never does that. The guy stumbles, recovers, whines to the ref, then trips over his own feet. Atrocious.
February 4th, 2020 at 9:48 PM ^
I'd be more sorry for the blacked out portion of the most important part of the video!
*Just razzin' ya!
February 4th, 2020 at 9:59 PM ^
Ha! Using my phone to film my iPad was, uhhh, harder than expected.
February 4th, 2020 at 9:38 PM ^
Completely agree that call is indefensible, but if Michigan can shoot at all, they win that game by double digits.
February 4th, 2020 at 9:41 PM ^
This is true.
Also no clue why we waited forever to foul at the end.
February 4th, 2020 at 9:40 PM ^
Ripped jerseys are fouls now? Too bad that rule must not have existed when we had Adidas. Burke had a jersey shredded at Penn State and got no foul call. Glenn Robinson had his jersey nearly ripped off his body DURING A DUNK against VCU and didn't get a foul.
Must've missed the announcement that tugging a jersey not only gets you a foul, but IT GETS YOU A FLAGRANT
February 4th, 2020 at 9:42 PM ^
After watching this game - the quality of officiating is beyond pathetic in the B10. When announcers are telling everyone it’s unbelievable, you got to wonder WTF is up.
February 4th, 2020 at 9:56 PM ^
Commentators almost always support the officials, but Bilas was giving them hell.
It sucks to lose to osu, especially when they are bad, but neither team looked very good and I would be surprised if either of them make it very far in the Big Ten and/or NCAA tournament (assuming either team makes the tournament). Ugly game all around.
February 5th, 2020 at 9:17 AM ^
What is so extremely infuriating is the lack of consistency or standards in Big Ten officiating. You get many games where even if a guy gets touched slightly on the arm driving, a foul is called. Then you get games like this one where it turns into a backyard brawl with nothing getting called. Is there anyone with a brain running the Big Ten officials office?
February 4th, 2020 at 9:46 PM ^
Don't untie shoes.
Don't rip jersey.
Anything else?
February 5th, 2020 at 1:02 PM ^
It is OK to grasp a face mask and twist whilst trying to remove someone's head from his shoulders.
February 4th, 2020 at 9:53 PM ^
It took the B1G years to do anything about the shit Brad Davis pulls multiple times every game. Fuck the B1G officials.
February 4th, 2020 at 9:53 PM ^
Wow, this is the longest it has taken me to decompress after a loss in quite some time. That Flagrant Foul call has me extremely outraged. You just shouldn't deny the young men a square deal in that situation.
February 4th, 2020 at 10:02 PM ^
The entire 2nd half was filled with horrendous officiating. Not sure what can be done about it at this point. I do think howard needs to take some fines and call some refs out by name and in general be a bigger baby on the court. That tends to lead to a better whistle. Just watch what happens Saturday.
February 4th, 2020 at 10:16 PM ^
That was a bald call at any point of the game but at that point it literally handed them the game. I still don't understand how the big ten is okay with the way these games are reffed.
February 4th, 2020 at 10:44 PM ^
We are the only Big Ten team to get hosed by calls at home. Ridiculous call tonight capped a terrible night of reffing. Refs need to be held accountable. Isn’t there an oversight group? If there is, they all need to be fired because they aren’t doing their job.
February 5th, 2020 at 9:20 AM ^
I had this idea a while back: if someone has the resources, starting up a referee review site that rates referees in basketball and football would get a crap ton of traffic if done right. Just need to come up with a quantifiable rating system and a way to create the reviews efficiently.
February 5th, 2020 at 12:49 AM ^
A technical would've been 1 shot snd the ball, no?! So how do we go from that being the call to a Flagrant-1?! Pretty wild. I still can't believe it
February 5th, 2020 at 2:22 AM ^
The funniest part of that game in TV was that the first 5-10 replays they showed to support Bilas’ complaining were legit no calls. (The Wesson block/ DDJ non-charge excepted)
the non-funny part is obvious. Full-on hip checks plus a hand in the back push out of bounds not being called.
of course in the last 2 minutes they get every call wrong Wesson’s ‘and 1’ was terrible. Nothing close to a foul there
and making up a rule for the flagrant 1 was the culmination
yes, the officiating was abhorrent, but not for the reasons that Bilas was saying
February 5th, 2020 at 4:59 AM ^
Don't forget the guy grabbing Franz with 2 hands around the shoulders to beat him to a loose ball. Right in front of the ref.
February 5th, 2020 at 9:12 AM ^
As rewarding as the rolled off fingertip call last year. Let’s watch the replay forever to make a call that has never made before.
February 5th, 2020 at 3:28 PM ^
Just another contorted interpretation of the rules by the officials to fuck over Michigan...like the personal foul on Harbaugh for throwing his clipboard to the ground against OSU (which I’ve seen other prominent coaches do since then without a ref even attempting to throw a flag)