Was that the worst officiated Michigan basketball game ever?

This was an interesting thread to pop up. It never crossed my mind that UM was getting shafted or anything during the game. Stanford had a few skilled big guys who got great position and were good players. Fouling them wasn't unexpected. At the end of the game, that guy kept blowing by everyone and getting legitimately fouled. 

I thought there were some odd calls here and there (looked like Robinson took a lot of contact on that drive at the end of the game, should have been an and one) but I didn't think the refs were too much of a factor.

I didn't get to watch any of the game, admittedly, but it seems like every game we play, or even most any college basketball game in general, is bogged down by supposed "horrid officiating." According to the common fan, anyway.

At what point do we accept this officiating as just part of the game, learn how to deal with it within our game-plan, and move on? I'm not calling anyone on the board out who says the refs were bad. Maybe the refs really were bad. But it seems like a very common complaint these days. At what point do we just sit there and say its going to be a poorly called game no matter what happens?

Guess it was worse in person. Two fouls on our two bigs in first minute. Couple touch fouls after the play. Ton of ticket tack fouls again and again. It was odd. A travel call on Walton about 5 seconds after it happen. Seemingly unbalanced in first half.

That said, the fifth foul on Nastic was karma. That, to the eye, seemed like it was clearly on Powell and they gave a fifth to Nastic who was killing us. That would have been merely four on Powell.

Oh, if this blog was only around in 1977..we began and ended the season ranked #1..only to lose a disaster of a game to Charlotte in the elite 8. It was poorly played,yes, but the officiating was atrocious! The team was soooo rootable, too..Steve Grote and Phil Hubbard would have been MGoBlog legends.

Who cares? We won!!

I think people are mainly bothered about the officials not also calling several touch fouls against Stanford that they called against us, seemed like at least 3 times in second half , contact was only called on one side. The replay did clearly show Glenn getting pushed in the back on his final drive, should have been an and one.

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But the bigger issue is making foul shots. For all the discipline Beileim has the players, missed foul shots just seem the norm. Am i the only one who wonders about this paradox?

I was sitting pretty close to the court with a pretty good angle to see contact around the baskets. There were a few bewildering calls. But there usually are. What bothered me were the 2 calls against in the 2nd half where (forget which player) their Guard-Like-Substance just sprinted full speed, lowered his shoulder into a Michigan player & drew fouls both times. Those were absolutely horseshit. Not only that, those kinds of plays are unnecessarily dangerous for both players. It went beyond drawing contact and more into "punt return blocking." Too many fouls. We were shooting double bonus with like 11 to go in the first half (curiously once we got there the fouls stopped coming) and Stanford was shooting it nearly as early in the 2nd half. Can't complain too hard. Looked like we got the benefit of a clearly wrong shot clock reset on an offensive board. Looked clear it should've been a violation; their coach was real heated about it. Also there was a seemingly insane OOB call on the baseline that went against us. It looked like there was a significant (more than half a foot) bit of space. Friends agreed, so, wasn't just hallucinating.

It's funny how the announcers (or lack thereof) can color your perception of the game itself.  I watched virtually all of it sound off as my mother-in-law was over to celebrate her 83rd birthday so the game was on for me to watch when i could.  And while it was clear there were a LOT of fouls called it seemed to me like it was pretty even both ways.  And I didnt see any really horrible calls go against us so to my eyes, no, this wasnt even CLOSE to the "worst officiated game ever".  What I noticed was Stanford making free throws (a-la Arizona) and us missing them.  That's what bugged me.

You want to watch the tape of the "worst officiated game ever?"  That's easy - just run any Michigan v Indiana game played in Bloomington for the past 40 years.  I don't care which year you pick as long as it's played at Indiana and you'll see call after call after call that will make you think the refs are all parents of the Hoosier players.

...stakes weren't high enough to be the worst officiated game ever.  I know I know, one shouldn't have anything to do with the other, but I would argue that the phantom foul on Burke's block at the end of the Nat'l Championship game automatically made that a "worse" officiated game because it mattered so much more.

The national title game was one of the worst officiated games I've ever seen. It gets my vote.