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Originally posted by BktBallRef
I saw the two leads, didn't see the play DJ refers to.
A gutsy call on the intentional foul. I thought he could have been a no call, as the dribbler had pretty well pulled away. But if you whistle, it has to be intentional. He was definitely trying to foul him.
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I am going to preface my remarks that my mother is a Kansas native and is a graduate of KU, and I was born in Lawrence, KS, and therefore that when it comes to college basketball I am a die hard KU fan. Having said that I will now procede.
Daryl and I officiated in the Final Four of the Ohio Special Olympics State Championship this weekend in New Philadelphia, and on Friday night we had settled into our room for the evening after dinner after officiating two semi-final games.
We saw the play live. The contact was not a no call situation. Daryl could have cared less and the first words out of his mouth was that it was an intentional foul. It was not a gutsy call, it was the correct call, any other than an intentional foul would have been incorrect. And if the shoe and been on the other foot I would have expected the same foul to be called against KU.
What really lost the game for KU was 1 for 11 shooting from behind that arc and when the got the ball back with 10.5 sec and were down by only one point, Bob Self did not request his final timeout to set up a scoring play then until waiting until 2.4 sec to request.
MTD, Sr.