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• 'Nova got jobbed on a controversial traveling call with 9 seconds left....ALAS POOR 'NOVA... (NT) -- Ram It '66, Sat March 26, 2005 00:25:37
  • How they get robbed? The kid clearly took 3 steps. The entire nation saw that except you? Must be the cateracts. (NT) -- Smoochy, Sat March 26, 2005 08:30:04
    • That call never gets made in that situation. NEVER. Nova got jobbed. (NT) -- Rambacker, Sat March 26, 2005 10:01:39
    • What's a cateract?? Heheh! Smoochy, it looks like you had some shekels on the Tar Heels last night. Like palming, walking is rarely called these days. I guess it was just myself and the chorus of boos at the end of the game that saw it correctly. (NT) -- Ram it '66, Sat March 26, 2005 10:05:32
      • Ram it '66- 1. I cant stand Nova or WV. 2. I have been rooting for the NC boys since Matt Dourghty left. Team has 4-5 legit N.B.A. players and he ran that team into the ground during his tenure. After watching this Louisville game, It hard not to root for them to win the whole thing. With Garcia out. each player sucked it up, stepped up to the challenge and played with the heart of a lion. Down by 20 and WV hitting 70% of their 3's? WOW... (NT) -- Smoochy, Sat March 26, 2005 19:18:01
    • I'm delighted that 'Nova lost. I've never liked them and there's no way I'm rooting for a Jay Wright coached team. That being said, the kid didn't walk. Lundquist and Rafferty thought he did but a closer look showed only 2 steps. The studio crew disagreed w/ the call as did many reporters in today's papers. So much for the entire nation seeing it your way. (NT) -- bfg, Sat March 26, 2005 10:42:44
      • Another mix up in last night's games was the call in the Duke/MSU game in which Shelden Williams dunked it home, it cleared the cylinder and popped out. Packer and Nantz were quick to say it was a hoop as initally called by the refs, but they did a great job of backtracking once the refs took the 2 points off the board. I hate Packer. (NT) -- Air Hej '02, Sat March 26, 2005 11:09:20
        • I thought it was a hoop but Duke's TO's cost them the game not that call. How about the clock oerator not starting the clock on the inbound at the end of the 1st half!!! Unreal. At least the refs got that call right. It looks like A-10 teams aren't the only ones w/ refing problems. (NT) -- bfg, Sat March 26, 2005 11:16:52
          • I've never seen a Duke team committ so many turnovers like that. You are right bfg, that is what cost them the game. They may have had some sloppy ballhandling and crappy passing, but I think the refs let a lot go. Ewing and Redick were getting hacked a lot of those steals. It was weird to see Duke not get the calls like they usually do. (NT) -- Air Hej '02, Sat March 26, 2005 11:31:10
            • you're right about the refs. I thought it was a pretty physical game and the refs let alot go. That being said, until the final 2 mins when Duke started to foul, the refs had called 3-4 more PFs on MSU than on Duke. (NT) -- bfg, Sat March 26, 2005 11:42:22
          • Just so you know one of the officials in that game was none other than the A-10's own Reggie Greenwood. (NT) -- J92, Sat March 26, 2005 13:19:26
      • I suggest you start rooting for Nova , Georgetown and any other Catholic university that is in the NCAA tournament. They are similar to Fordham in many, many ways. There is a bigger picture her than your personal feelings about coaches or other secondary considerations. Fordham's administrators and Board are watching the Catholic school's progress in the NCAA's and the NIT, and it affects the future support of our program. Let's keep our eye on the big picture, not the small one. (NT) -- Rambacker, Sat March 26, 2005 21:44:06
        • Screw them. I've never liked 'Nova or BC and I will never root for them. I'l happy to root for HC when they make it, Gonzaga, and the Catholic schools from the A-10 but not Nova or BC. (NT) -- bfg, Sun March 27, 2005 13:10:30
          • Each to their own. I know who I'm rooting for and it has to do with Fordham's future, not my personal biases. (NT) -- Rambacker, Sun March 27, 2005 16:06:39
            • I find that to be a very difficult way to root. I often go into a game thinking I am going to root for a certain team b/c it is better for Fordham, a pick I have made in my NCAA pool or some other personal reason and later find that I wind up rooting for the other team. It happened recently in the HC vs. St. Joe's game in the NIT. It would be better for FU to have an A-10 team do well, but next thing you know HC made a run and I noticed that I was rooting them on. I root with my heart and when it coincides with my mind great, but that is not always the case. (NT) -- JóDete93, Mon March 28, 2005 00:03:21
              • I find that happening to me sometimes too, but I've actually trained myself to root for the team I think will help Fordham if they win. But beyond rooting for an A-10 or Catholic school , it doesn't become much of a deal. I'm so used to rooting that way, I don't even notice it anymore. (NT) -- Rambacker, Mon March 28, 2005 09:17:04
                • I tend to view all of college sports as being just six degrees of separation from Fordham. I care about teams to the extent they have any bearing on Fordham and it's future. All other teams and conferences are merely interesting but no relevant, to me at least. (NT) -- DamnRam, Mon March 28, 2005 21:30:57
                  • We're on the same page on that one. (NT) -- Rambacker, Fri April 01, 2005 10:02:24
  • It took me about 10 replays to finally see that the call was wrong. These referees are supposed to be pros so they should get it right, but in college the travel gets called a lot more than the carry which rarely gets called. In the NBA neither exist anymore. When I saw it live something definitely looked wrong. I think the referee initially wanted to call a charge b/c Ray lowered his shoulder, but not enough contact was made though it did cause a slight hesitation in Ray's step so instead he called a travel which on initial review looked like the right call. I was rooting for UNC so I may have seen it through biased eyes. I wanted Villanova to win about as much as I want to send my kid to Iona. (NT) -- JóDete93, Sat March 26, 2005 11:21:23
    • My first instinct thought that it was a travel. It wasn't until the various replays that it looked to me like the wrong call was made. The one thing I couldn't understand was Rafferty continually siding with the call when the replay showed it was questionable at best. (NT) -- J92, Sat March 26, 2005 13:23:21
    • Curiosity... why do you guys dislike Nova so much? -- Novafan, Tue March 29, 2005 17:36:53
  • The only question in my mind: did he take 3 steps or 4? After perhaps taking one small step, the player took three long, obvious strides towards the basket. Did anyone notice that the VU coaching agreed with old Raftery and me? You guys must be NBA fans. (NT) -- Ramses, Sat March 26, 2005 15:47:54
    • Amen!! If it was such a bad call, why didnt any of the VU coaches show any signs of protest? Were they listening to Packer via pocket radios? (NT) -- Smoochy, Sat March 26, 2005 19:21:47

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• The kid took two steps. I couldn't believe the ref blew the call, and that was before I saw the replay or read this morning's papers. And I don't care who he plays for, that call never -- well, almost never -- gets made. One more in a list of fortuitous turns for the Tarheels in their NCAA Tournament history. (NT) -- WhamBamThankURam, Sat March 26, 2005 20:00:47