Louisville-Uc Irvine - refs in the press again (Video)

[JeffM]

I'm not sure whether there was a foul or not.

I thought the ball handler did some acting rather than take care of the ball.

I also thought it was a poor play call. If a foul was called, UC Irvine would have had the ball at midcourt with about 4.1 secconds left. I think a better play would have been to get the ball to a player who was in scoring position such that the player could have gotten a shot off or the inbounds would have been along the end line.

[deecee]

In most cases I would say this isn't a foul, but the fact that their coach was calling for a foul and it was obvious they had fouls to give, I would call anything marginal.

In reality, I don't think this was a foul, but knowing that they were trying to foul I would foul.

Earlier in the game Louisville had a one on one where it looked like UCI clearly went for the foul and made some decent contact and no foul was called. In most cases this just leads to escalation. But the no call was right, if for the wrong/right reasons.