Nice win for you guys. You were the tougher team on this night. And I'm incredibly angry about it.
Some terrible officiating in the game. I'm not blaming the entire loss on the refs, trust me I don't like to do that, but I would like to get your take on a couple of key calls that I thought changed the momentum in the game and really fucked us over.
In the latter stages of the first half, we were up 4, and my boy Joe Bertrand got up in the air and grabbed an offensive board...there was a tussle...and for some fucking reason they called a technical foul on Bertrand? Your guy fouled him, if anything. After that it was totally incidental. It was not flagrant, it was not intentional. Whatever the fuck they decide to rule on that. Just a terrible call, and you guys hit the two free throws, got the ball on the side, and made a three quickly after. We went from up 4 with the ball, to down 1 with the ball, because of one egregious fuck-up by the refs.
Then, late in the second half, you were up 1, and Brandon stripped the fuck out of your boy at halfcourt and had an easy breakaway dunk set up but the ref called a foul...when there was no foul.
Other than that, yeah. We played like shit. No rhythm to the game whatsoever, especially after the aforementioned bullshit call on Bertrand, which the refs mulled over at the scorer's table for like six minutes, taking away any flow that either team had going.
Game sucked, but if we beat Wisconsin on Sunday it's all good and we're back on track. Big game.