Officiating

I didn't realize we had to play the refs today too

stop bitching about stuff you cannot control.  Yes there were questionable calls, but on both teams.  This is a part of the game every game there are calls that should not be called and calls that should not have been called.  The game is over OSU outplayed us for the most part.  Just look forward to the tourney.

Wouldn't necessarily say it was against us. Let's not forget Craft and Lighty went out early in the 1st and we had a bonus when they didn't.

It's more that it was just bad officiating in general. Which is unfortunately the norm in this conference.

and I don't think it was as one sided as people think, but how Hightower and Valentine continue to be employed is just beyond me.  

I think it is just basketball in general that sucks.  I love March Madness, but at times like this it is so frustrating to see how weak the calls are.  Everytime Sullinger goes up it is a foul by default.  Also don't like that penalties can be taken as a strategy to help a team.  

I agree that there were some extremely poor officiating periods (save for the end of the game when all the calls went our way). This officiating looked even worse because three bad calls in a row (the missed out of bounds of sullinger, the missed sulligner charge and then one more, i think) cam right when we had gotten close and spurred a run for them.

Poor officiating coupled with incredibly poor timing makes for a pretty one-sided job by the refs.

The game of basketball can't be officiated properly. Not much to be done.

the only call that pissed me off was the OOB on sully that they called off on mich in the 2nd half.  STU's arm knocks the ball clearly going in one direction, the ball ends up traveling in the other direction oob.  how does this happen?  ah yes the ball must've deflected off sullinger's arm which was traveling in the direction the ball went OOB.  

grrr just grrr.  after this, the 18-3 for OSU happened.

When I see people blaming the officials for this loss, I can only conclude they are clueless about college basketball

I actually don't think this game, overall, was as bad as the one in Columbus, in which we committed seven team fouls in the second half before they committed their first.  But in both games a bunch of calls suddenly went OSU's way right after we'd made a run, which was really frustrating.  Now granted, it did not help that we went stone cold from the field at the same time as the stretch of shaky calls.  We lost our composure for a few minutes, which you can't do.  

But I don't think it cost us the game.  Not having any super athletic and experienced big men did that. That'll come in time, hopefully. There's a reason OSU is #1 in the nation.  If you want to get all the calls, you have to be highly ranked, and have players they assume can brush guys off with a shoulder move, or if they don't make it, MUST have been fouled. It's been a great run, and thankfully, it's not over yet. Let's not sully it with a lot of borderline whining. This team has done more than anyone thought it would (I mean, if you put Beilein under a lie detector, I'm sure he's even a bit pleasantly surprised). Let's see if we can steal one in the Tournament and really make some noise. There was no shame in losing today. They played their hearts out to the end, and there was no quit in them in a  loss anymore than in their victories.

I'm pretty sure it was physical in both directions.

Though I don't blame the refs for us losing, I am completely at a loss to why Sullinger gets SO MANY CALLS his direction. We were dumbfounded watching the game.

Doesn't have his feet set? Eh, he probably meant to set them... CHARGE ON MICHIGAN. He hits the ball out of bounds? Eh, probably didn't mean to... OUT ON MICHIGAN. He "bulls" his way to the basket with elbows flying and as though he's playing football on the goal line? Eh, he probably didn't do anything wrong... NO CALL NECESSARY

2 bad calls back to back when we were on our run to cut it to 2 but then that out of bounds call on sullinger and then the bs charge call on the same official....he acted like he didnt even know what to call at first....that killed our momentum bottom line...

when cbs put up tosu as the winner with 2 min down 14

I don't like blaming officiating.  As said above the key to this one was that the back to back poor calls(both by Valentine, not Hightower) turned the momentum.   But momentum will swing in games quickly.  UM lost their composure, and that falls on themselves.

Their success this past month has come from playing on the edge of control at times, and making the big plays.  Today, they went over that peak and fell on the side of out of control.

It was bad, but then again, it always is.

What I mean is, basketball is just frustrating because refs have a huge influence on the game.  Always have, always will.  It sucks.

Let's win in the tourny.

what game people were watching, if they don't think the refs catered to Sullinger. It was fairly blatant. That is the only part the officiating that truely pissed me off. The refs treated the guy like he was God out there.

That sequence of bad calls did have an impact on the mometum though. With that said, we also went  extremely cold at the same time, which didn't help matters.

see that outbounds call, cleraly off of sullnger...what are you gonna do. I love this team tho, we need a better supporting cast behind timmy and morris. 

Morris gets frustrated easily and when he does, he has the tendency to dribble alot, drive the basket, jump before he has an opening and put up stupid shots. Hopefully in the offseason he learns not to do that, learns to finish with his left and gets a nice pull up jumper. Also, I really hope we pull a big man into this recruiting class. In our losses against elite competition, that has been the difference.

The out of bounds call on the rebound that clearly was knocked out by sullinger was an absolute killer cuz that was when we were down two and they scored to go up four.  Then right after that the block on Hardaway which was clearly a charge was devastating (especially because that was a much more obvious charge call than Morris' in the first half, which should have been a block on Sullinger).  Sullinger made the first and missed the second and they put it in to go up seven.  

Two really bad calls to help them go from up two to up seven when we had a ton of momentum.  Highway robbery.  

I thought the announcers were very good though.  Usually they fawn over the #1 team in a matchup like that but they gave us a lot of credit for our last two months, which have been outstanding.  I was pleased with that.