Yeah! Duke does it again!!

[rainmaker]

Originally posted by revref
If they might have played better those last 4 minutes, someone might have posted some comments about the iffy "no call" when Reddick drove to the hoop and got hacked.

I went back and watched this again on tape. Over and over. In the footage that the network showed for the re-play, Reddick was completely blocked from view just when the UConn player swung his arm and the ball came loose. But if one applies principles we've discussed in the past on this board, of analyzing the path of the ball to judge what probably happened, I'd say it was a clean "all-ball" swipe. The ball goes almost completely straight down, and the player also moved almost straight down, and parallel to the floor, most likely from trying to reach his hands toward the ball. The most the UConn player could have hit was one arm, but REddick's arms both remained exactily the same distance from the floor.

I'm not saying these kinds of deductions are how the ref made his decision -- he was in great position, unlike the cameraman. Looked like a good no-call to me.