I am almost ready to quit on college basketball. How can a team be allowed to cheat this bad and win a championship is beyond me. I have the tape of this game, and will be happy to argue call for call with anyone. Williams committed most likely around 10 fouls, including one that would've been his 3rd with 10 to go in the first half and would've sent him to the bench for the last 10 minutes. That probably would've had Arizona up 5-10 at the half. Second half? Same story. Williams committed about 5 fouls before they called him for his 4th, and he ran over Arizona defenders repeatedly on calls that should've been his 5th and sat him down for the last 6-7 minutes. And the play that may have sent Duke to the championship? Battier COMPLETELY CLIMBED WOODS' BACK for that dunk. And I thought the Lakers were bad. I guarantee you, I will never refer to Duke as national champions, because after all, they still haven't earned it. ------------------ "We're not settling for just getting in the playoffs." "We want a higher seed. There's no doubt. We expect to get in."-- Steve Francis President of the Mo Taylor and Jason Collier fan club! Draftsource.net ClutchTown.com
Duke, Duke, Duke of Championships, Championships, Championships!!!! Awesome game, though. The score doesn't indicate how close a game that really was. Man, I LOVE this game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ------------------ "So you say you want some intelligent responses? I say give me something intelligent to respond to." -- Dimwits beware, B-Ball freak tells it like it is. Sing it bro!
Cat: Have you ever heard of The Flop? Wah-h-h! Duke and The College Game rule... ------------------ Time is a great teacher-- only problem is it kills all its pupils. PowerbizOnline.com [This message has been edited by RichRocket (edited April 02, 2001).]
Apparently those officials were taught by Bill Kennedy. ------------------ Ceo of the Walt Williams and Lisa Malosky fan club. atheistalliance.org
Im not complaining!! I won all my bets DUKE! DUKE! DUKE! ------------------ Nice guys finish last ... and im surely not going to finish last!
Bah, the refereeing stunk all around and was terribly inconsistent, but it wasn't biased toward one specific team. Arizona lost because they're guards couldn't hit the ocean from the beach, Loren Woods Couldn't dominate despite being guarded by someone 4-5 inches shorter than him, and Arizona lost the National Player of the Year late in the game giving him two easy dunks. Oh, and the play that sent Duke to the championship was William's three, and Battier should've been blocked out by Jefferson and it was not over the back. ------------------ Founder and President of the Houston Homers Club(HHC) - Are you a homer? Join now! The Rockets will be NBA champions. Believe.
Monday, April 2 Many wonder if refs like Blue Devils ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS – Basketball officials insist a foul is a foul, whether it happens in some start-of-season game or in the NCAA Tournament. There was a buzz around the Final Four, though, that if the foul involves Duke, the Blue Devils will get the benefit of the call. There were several moments in Duke's 82-72 victory over Arizona for the NCAA championship Monday night when fouls that seemed obvious weren't called, including one first-half collision between Jason Williams and Jason Gardner. Williams had two personals at the time and a third would have been crucial. It turned into a no-call, though, leaving usually mild-mannered Arizona coach Lute Olson gesturing at the officials. Olson was asked about the play after the game. "There are going to be calls that are going to be made," he said, measuring his words. "I frankly thought Jason Williams fouled out twice with pushoffs and it didn't happen. The officiating didn't get us. Duke got us." Gardner remembered the play and was asked if he thought Williams had committed a foul. "I can't answer that," he said. "I'm not the referee. I wish it went our way but it didn't. You've just got to play." Later there was some brutal body contact under the basket between Duke's Shane Battier and Loren Woods of Arizona and again there was no whistle from the officials. Arizona's Gene Edgerson, who had four fouls in eight minutes, shrugged off the sequences. "You don't worry about calls or no-calls," he said. "You just play. "Everybody's capable of making mistakes. I'm not here to say they made mistakes. You don't hear the whistle. You just keep playing." Woods and Michael Wright also finished with four fouls for Arizona. Williams had four for Duke, which was whistled for 17 personals while Arizona was called for 20. Maryland coach Gary Williams, whose team blew a 22-point lead against Duke in the semifinals, was also critical of some key calls in that game. He screamed when Lonny Baxter fouled out of the game but later refused to make an issue of it, saying, "I can't comment on the officiating." Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski has heard the whispers about elite programs like his getting an edge and he doesn't like it. "I think in any sport there's a tendency at times to blame something that shouldn't be blamed," he said on the eve of the final game. "I think what we do, if we lose, we look at ourselves first and figure out what decisions we may have made, our game plan or whatever and then take responsibility." ------------------ Whitey will pay.
