These guys are crazy if they think these numbers are actually indicative of any sort of conscious or unconscious bias. Roger Ayers is one of the top officials in college basketball, so it would stand to reason that he's assigned more meaningful games. As an educated guess, UK probably loses 6-7 games a year on average. Generally speaking, those losses typically come against the likes of UConn, Florida, Louisville, Duke, etc. Those losses typically do not come against programs like Vanderbilt, Mississippi St., Marshall, etc. On which games do you suppose Roger Ayers is more likely to be assigned? Do you think Calipari is more likely to get emotional in a highly-contested, high-stakes game than in a 25-point UK blowout? All this means is that the UK games Roger Ayers is on are generally the big ones.
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