VT vs. Duke

[BigDT (VT)]

If I may, I would like to ask some questions of you guys.

Someone posted a link to this thread on a Virginia Tech message board and I would find your opinions on the game interesting and helpful.

I should preface my questions by saying that (like most Tech fans, I suppose) my basketball knowledge is almost non-existent. Until now, Tech hasn't had a basketball program to speak of since I was in high school.

1. As a lay-person watching the game, the officiating seemed to me to be biased. Is it reasonable to suspect bias? Do officials ever come into a game with their own preconceived biases that could affect how they call the game?

2. During the first ten minutes or so of the game, one of VT's players (Washington, I think), fell to the floor three times and appeared to have been shoved. None of these incidents were flagged. For anyone who saw these plays, was it a good no-call?

3. Duke had a very large, very tall player ... Williams I think was his name. At least 6 or 7 times (basically every time he went for a lay up) when he jumped up to shoot, the Tech player defending him was called for a foul. What was Tech doing that was illegal?

4. Overall, do you think that, even if the officials were calling more fouls than usual, they were doing so in a balanced fashion?

By the way, on Coach Greenberg's ejection ... I don't think they showed what he did to get his second T on the TV broadcast. His first was kinda curious - he and K were both arguing with one of the officials. Greenberg got a T, but K didn't. I can only assume that Greenberg provoked the foul by using more four-letter words. I don't know what the argument was about, but it lasted completely through a TV timeout.

[Edited by BigDT (VT) on Feb 1st, 2005 at 01:55 AM]