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LMAO@Enberg calling Shipp Afflalo and then correcting himself by saying "well, they look alike". Hey Dick, you do that like 46 times a game, We're used to it by now.
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Mata is wowingly ugly. He looks like one of those Geico cavemen.

 

Any chance the cavemen can hit their FTs?

 

Are freethrow's so easy a caveman can do it?

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The Xavier guy did quite the acting job on that play though. Oden pushed the guy but not nearly hard enough to send him flying like he did. The Xavier player went flying like a Mexican soccer player. And that play shouldn't even matter because if Xavier makes its free throws, they win the game.

 

And if the ref calls a flagrant foul, like it would normally be called in rec league, high school, college, or NBA, Xavier wins the game too.

 

You can't control the what the refs are going to do and can't assume anything. You can control making your own free throws. Xavier didn't make theirs, too bad for them.

 

I don't buy that. Like if the ump makes a bad call on a play at the plate to end the game... you can say "well you shouldn't have given up the hit in the 9th" or "should've scored more runs", but when a ref screws up, he screws up. Why even have a flagrant foul rule if you're going to let a guy push an opponent down to the ground? I guess he needs to pick him up and crack him over his knee to get a flagrant foul in that spot.

 

First, like I said before, every single foul at the end of a game when a team is trying to comeback is an intentional foul yet they never call them. If you want to call this an intentional foul, you have to call all of them intentional.

 

Second, the free throws didn't happen in the middle of the game. If the Xavier player makes both, they are up 4 with 9 seconds left, and there is no way OSU is going to tie the game up especially since they can't move the ball to half court on a timeout like you can in the NBA. I hate the cop out on the refs when that team easily could have won the game if they did what was in their power. This isn't like the Georgetown-Vanderbilt game when the Georgetown player traveled at the end and it wasn't called. The Vandy defenders did everything they could to prevent Georgetown from scoring and the refs didn't call the traveling. But if Xavier makes both the free throws instead of just one, the game is over and there is no debate. Xavier would have advanced.

 

EDIT: Not to mention that Xavier was lucky the refs didn't call a foul on the skirmish under the basket right before the Oden foul.

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This is a win-win game for me. Either UCLA wins and some of my friends are screwed in their brackets because they have Kansas winning it all or Kansas wins and I get points for the win.
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I'm not sure the refs are paying attention when the ball goes out of bounds despite being well-positioned.

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