Ok, so that was all mine, guess I need to learn how to quote you guys, haha

Quote from: USee on March 08, 2009, 12:18:54 AM

Quote from: Titan Q on March 07, 2009, 10:31:46 PM

* I thought UW-Platteville got a terrible whistle the entire game.

Although I wouldn't go so far as to say it was a home whistle, I thought there were some really bad calls and the whistle definitely leaned wheaton's way. That said, Raymond got no calls tonight. Wheaton went to the line 37 times but Raymond didn't shoot a free throw until midway through the 2nd half and all but 2 of his 8 ft's, I believe, were from bonus situations and not shooting fouls. He was really hammered when he went to the hoop and the refs let it go. I think he got frustrated by that. I also think the large FT disparity was due in large part to UWP's very physical style. On balance, however, I thought UWP got more of the bad calls. There were 6 or 8 offensive fouls called and I thought maybe 2 of them were legit. The offensive pick against UWP at the start of the 2nd half was atrocious and so was the offensive foul on Raymond as he drove a minute later. I thought the overturned OB call was a good job as the ball was clearly knocked out by a Wheaton player.


Sitting courtside for this game, I must say my buddies and I did feel like Wheaton got the whistle advantage. No joke here, the first 6 calls of the game were made by the small, African-American referee, at least half of which were not his calls based on his positioning. The offensive pick foul on UWP that you are referring to is because right before the timeout that that play came from, Jahns got caught up in a screen getting to his man shooting a three and he went to the ground. After the timeout was called, he went right to the colored ref and asked him to watch the moving screen...sure enough next screen set gets called and it was completely clean.

In other thoughts, as was discussed on here, what was the Wheaton staff thinking not adjusting to their defense on Skemp? On one possesion in the first half, Wiele gave-up trying to get around him and Skemp got the ball just above the block. He did not even look to go at Wiele, he held the ball looking for a shooter and immediately passed it. I am intersted if any WIAC posters are on here how teams in the conference guarded him to keep him at 18.7 per game all year.

As a buddy of Carwell, it sucked not being able to see him on the floor for more of the game because of his foul trouble. His hot orange hyperdunks couldn't help the ref's whistle stay away from him, although his play with Wheaton up 1 at the end of regulation probably saved the Thunder's chances because they could not stop Skemp inside at all.

New to the board, but I have been reading for the past year or so and finally decided to register.....quick thought, even though it relates to some of the ideas posted on here about a week or so ago with all the Midwest powers being in the same bracket...

Has anybody given thought to the fact that in the midwest, D3 basketball is bigger than D-2 basketball? For whatever reason, players prefer going to D-3 schools in the midwest rather than D-2 schools.

I am not familiar with D-2 basketball much, but I cannot think of any D-2 powers that come from the midwest compared to those from the eats and west coasts. Please correct me if I'm wrong in saying this, but I just feel that the popularity of D-3 schools compared to D-2 schools in the midwest is a large reason why the midwest brackets are always stacked.