Calipari and Pitino both whacked

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Originally Posted by ballgame99

Apparently I'm in the minority, but that's a foul. Defender is nowhere close to vertical and comes into the shooter's body to get to the ball. And as far as a "push off" the offensive player looks to be in his normal shooting/dunking motion, not actively trying to clear space. Then to call a cheap scramble foul on the same guy that just got hammered at the other end and have to T the coach because he had something to say about it, that's rough.

Yup. In the minority. The block/contact was 90/10 as in 90% block and then about 20% contact. At this level that is expected to be treated as a clean block. Any contact after is treated as incidental unless egregious.

The foul on the other end was a foul and depending on how the rest of the game was called could either be consistent with the level of play or not. But it was NOT a no call. Especially since the contact caused the player to lose possession of the ball.