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Well, I just finished watching the UConn/NC St. game quite carefully on video tape. All I can say is WOW. Sadly, I felt that the officiating was not very good. Three specific calls have already been mentioned in this thread. There were others too.
I doubt that any of these three guys will advance in the tournament.
Officials: Curtis Shaw, Ed Hightower, Steve Olson
We'll see if the NCAA agree with me.
I'll add one thing that others may not have noticed. On the play with 1:12 remaining and what most feel was a missed PC foul against NC St. up high in the C's primary area, Hightower dropped down toward the endline during the original shot and was a bit delayed in moving back up. He appears to get screened out by an NC St. player in his view of the crash. Also, on the replay during the later UConn FTs, the Lead is visible rotating over to Hightower's side. He never sees him. He actually should have been moving all the way out to the T position. I'm not sure the T saw the L go either because he never comes down into the screen. After the 3 pointer is made and UConn is bringing the ball the other way, the old T is the new L, Hightower is still the C (he calls the next foul on NC St), and we never see what happened to the old L. Did he go back to fix the missed rotation?
The play was quite out of whack.
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