What was worse? The officiating in the STJ-Rutgers game or SA Handicap?

[NoLuvForPletch]

Originally Posted by slotdirt

Yeah, but that call is barely ever made in an end of game situation, and moreover, the contact there was less than the contact allowed throughout the game. I thought calling a foul there would have been completely inconsistent with the officiating ther emainder of the game.

And if Jonathan Mitchell would have just been strong with the ball, he wouldn't have lost it out of bounds.

Look, I can see the complaints about the awful end of the game, but the other stuff happens all the time and wouldn't even be an issue if Fran Fraschilla - who was fired from St. John's because he reportedly showed his players his genitalia - hadn't made a huge deal of it.

I'm referring to the blocking foul called on Biruta 25 feet from the hoop. The one that was made when STJ was down 1, giving Hardy the 2 free throws (1 and 1 actually). How is THAT the only foul called in the last minute?

While I agree FF might have an axe to grind, Jay Bilas doesn't. Did you hear him this morning on Mike & Mike?

[slotdirt]

I did not. And I completely agree that Higgins, Watson, and Burr botched the last few seconds. However, I don't think Rutgers has much to complain about otherwise in so far as the overall game goes. The big whitey on RU made a living in the second half with "over the top" putbacks. Once the officials establish that isn't a foul - and they quite clearly did - then whatever Horne and/or Kennedy did to Mitchell can't also be a foul.