Trey Burke's block of Siva or the ball going off of Maymon's hands?
Which was a greater blown call? I think that the ball going off of Maymon was a greater missed call because they reviewed it and still missed it.
March 28th, 2014 at 10:25 PM ^
March 28th, 2014 at 10:26 PM ^
Trey's block. This is easy. That one might have fucked us out of a national title.
March 28th, 2014 at 10:27 PM ^
Exactly. Results-based grudges. I think most of us will forget and let go of the OOB call by tomorrow but the Trey block will stick in the fan base's collective craw for a while.
March 28th, 2014 at 10:44 PM ^
Fine. But that has zero to do with what call was worse.
March 28th, 2014 at 10:44 PM ^
One was a mistake. The other was a flat-out lie. Sorry, the Maymon call wins. They tried to make the game more entertaining. That is criminally dishonest.
March 28th, 2014 at 11:55 PM ^
March 28th, 2014 at 11:13 PM ^
That one hurt us more because we lost but it was a bang-bang play and one that's understandable to miss frankly.
The Maymon call was reviewed. The watched it in slo mo on a TV like 5-10 times and still got it wrong! That one is by far the worse call and it's not close.
March 28th, 2014 at 10:30 PM ^
As a blown call, probably today's call (because they had replay) but the Burke's block had a much bigger impact. Our team still got the win today even with the blown call, while UM got a transition opurtunity taken away from them and Louisville got 2 points of that call. 4 point swing in a game that was lost by 6.
March 28th, 2014 at 10:40 PM ^
The only reason there's a question is because the Burke block blown call had a bigger negative impact.
Just on their own merits, I think it's pretty clear that the sideline OB call was a bigger travesty. I was on my knees banging my head on the floor. I will never know how they could give that ball to the Vols. The Burke call... not as clear a case. Although still pretty damn clear. But the one tonight, seriously, it makes me think I belong to another species or something because how could any human not understand the ball went out off Maymon?
...block on the ball was clean, but I always thought they called it based on body contact.
March 28th, 2014 at 10:27 PM ^
Trey Burke's by a mile. Not only blown but changed momentum in the Championship game.
We lost that game and won tonight.
March 28th, 2014 at 10:28 PM ^
this game. Not even a good question!!!
March 29th, 2014 at 12:37 AM ^
March 28th, 2014 at 10:29 PM ^
March 29th, 2014 at 12:52 AM ^
wow, that coffee joke was taken straight from Seinfeld: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-skZx5liyaM
It's a chuck Lorre show, you can't honestly be expecting originality. He does competent, not new.
March 28th, 2014 at 10:45 PM ^
Some calls ARE worse than others. Charles White's fumble before going over the goal line in the 1979 Rose Bowl against us is far worse than Morgan getting called for a block when he clearly got the charge.
March 28th, 2014 at 10:59 PM ^
White's phantom touchdown still the worst call ever. White the scumbag, " Once I saw I was over the goal line I just let the ball go"
March 28th, 2014 at 11:02 PM ^
...at the 2 yard line. 7 points. We lost 17-10.
March 28th, 2014 at 11:34 PM ^
March 28th, 2014 at 11:53 PM ^
freedom is the freedom to say 2+2=4
March 28th, 2014 at 10:30 PM ^
The biggest blown call of that game was the ref assigning a foul Hancock committed to someone else that let him stay on the court and hit multiple threes! I can't figure out why people think the blown Trey call was more imporant. Also, can someone please provide the image of the blown call tonight. I can't find it and I need to fend off some trolls.
March 28th, 2014 at 10:36 PM ^
the "foul" on Burke that made him be out for the rest of the 2nd half. Now I know that Spike went crazy but Burke was really playing well and with him and Spike on the court it would have helped our offense (Hardaway got the ball stolen from him twice when brining it up) on the press break.
March 28th, 2014 at 11:18 PM ^
and it got little attention for some reason. He fouled Trey but they gave the block to someone else. I believe he scored 5 more points and drew McGary's 4th which sent him to the bench when we were only down a few points. A brutal miss. I think it may have had a bigger impact than the Burke non-block
March 28th, 2014 at 10:30 PM ^
At worst, the one may have cost M a national champsionship, the other may have cost us all a couple of grey hairs.
March 28th, 2014 at 10:31 PM ^
March 28th, 2014 at 10:40 PM ^
March 28th, 2014 at 10:31 PM ^
and the goaltend early in the game
March 28th, 2014 at 10:32 PM ^
Watch the last 12 minutes of this game again and see how the referees gave Tennessee every single marginal call to get them back in the game up until the Morgan charge. How about the two or three blocking calls that were easily Tennessee charges? Or the Walton no call when he was clearly positioned on a charge? Refereeing was utterly brutal as they went about their poetic license to bring the Vols back into the game. Typical bullshit.
Honestly, I was stunned with the Morgan charge call. After roughly 10 straight bad calls in a row favoring the Vols, why expect the sudden change? I guess because at that point the refs figured they'd done their job of making the game more interesting than it should have been, and went back to straight up calls.
Typicall horse shit that ruins CBB to me.
March 28th, 2014 at 11:13 PM ^
More of this. I was texting a friend like crazy about how bad the reffing was. There was one play that just made me think "Big Dance call," only called to build the drama as things are getting close. My heart almost gave out when they reviewed the inbounds pass that Tennessee tipped and Stauskas didn't even touch. I was ready for them to blow a second OOB call.
With all that said, we're advancing to the Elite 8 (Hail!) but those refs should be done for the tournament.
March 28th, 2014 at 11:53 PM ^
March 29th, 2014 at 11:28 AM ^
CLord, I agree 1,000,000,000%. I was thinking the exact same thing as I watched the Refs BLOW the last 10 minutes of that game. They do it ALL THE TIME in the men's NCAA tourney! Every year there are several games in which a team leads by a "safe" margin like 10-12 points with 6-7 minutes left.... and then the refs "enter" the game & start making their plays all over the freaking court & suddenly its a 2 point game with 30 seconds left.... I do not understand it. Certain refs must be thinking "this is boring. We can't let Team X win by 10, lets get Team Y back into it".... This type of thing does not happen in high school hoops. If Team X has controlled the game, then Team X wins comfortably, because they played better that night. This doesnt happen in Womens college hoop either; the team that controlled the game doesnt suddenly lose control the last 4 minutes, & it's because the refs aren't trying to influence the outcome. Watch & see.
March 28th, 2014 at 10:33 PM ^
March 28th, 2014 at 10:40 PM ^
was about the 15th or 20th horrible call in a game filled with calls that were just inexplicable. The refs officiating that game should have all been suspended for life. It was an utter embarassment to college basketball. Pitino could have deposited $100K in each of their bank accounts before the game and couldn't have gotten better results.
March 28th, 2014 at 10:33 PM ^
Today's was "worse" in the fact they could review it and change it. Today's was "less worse" in the fact it was more difficult to call real time. Both came at horrid times in the game.
March 28th, 2014 at 10:39 PM ^
No shame in getting today's call wrong in real time. Hell, no one knew what happened in real time. The issue is that they watched in on replay where it was OBVIOUS and then they STILL got it wrong. Just unbelievable.
The Trey call was terrible, but is a common blown call by bad basketball refs. They blow their whistle anticipating contact and then when it isn't there they are stuck. Those guys officiating the game were just terrible refs who were stuck in a game that was way way way too big for them. They couldn't handle the moment and they completely embarssed themselves.
March 28th, 2014 at 10:33 PM ^
Is this the call when it looked like it went off of Stauskas' hand?
March 28th, 2014 at 10:50 PM ^
Thanks - I had a hard time keeping track of the game because we had the Iowa State game sound on at the bar I was at, and of course I was having a meltdown during the last few minutes of our game.
March 28th, 2014 at 10:41 PM ^
March 28th, 2014 at 10:43 PM ^
I upvoted you (a first!) but the answer to this is quite obvious.
March 28th, 2014 at 10:46 PM ^
I upvoted you too (a first.)
March 28th, 2014 at 10:47 PM ^
The Block, they probably would have pulled out a national title if they made the right call.
March 28th, 2014 at 11:22 PM ^