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Eyewitness commentary on the officiating.

The first one is classic:

Officials go to monitor. Unless there a how-to-ref guide on it, it's an utter waste of time. Fans are letting officials have it.

Maria M. Cornelius @mmcornelius · 15h 15 hours ago

Holly just shakes her head ... this crew had better sprint off the floor and out of town.

This crew should not call an exhibition game, much less @NCAAWomensBKB postseason matchup.

Holly still has a cast. She should club an official.

I think Pat Summitt should storm the court. That would be the best basketball moment ever. :)

Holly has every right to be pissed. Pitt has hammered Tennessee all game. Nary a whistle. Play resumes, and crowd is raining boos.
 
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Maria M. Cornelius @mmcornelius · 15h 15 hours ago

Pitt is a hell of a team. Lady Vols persevered despite wretched officiating. Headed to Sweet 16 in Spokane.
 
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Maria M. Cornelius @mmcornelius · 15h 15 hours ago

Pitt is a hell of a team. Lady Vols persevered despite wretched officiating. Headed to Sweet 16 in Spokane.
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Pitt was a good team. Clearly, they peaked at tournament time.

This is a game that the LVs might have let slip last year but they are much more resilient and mentally tough this season.
 
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Cornelius is a massive HOMER, as are most of our fans of course. The idea that fans and a homer like her are objective is laughable. If a game is relatively close, you can COUNT on the complaints to start popping up about the terrible officiating--and of course the biased announcers. How about playing better basketball?

This is the tournament: They always let the players play more in the tournament. I thought the officiating was quite solid. Massengale bodied a Pitt guard out of bounds with 2 minutes in the game--pretty key play at a time when we were hanging on. She wasn't called for a foul. Also, Pitt is a pretty good defensive team. Let's stop being small town for a few days--at least until the Gonzaga game starts and you can start again complaining about the officials--and those anti-UT announcers!
 
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armchair said:
Cornelius is a massive HOMER, as are most of our fans of course. The idea that fans and a homer like her are objective is laughable. If a game is relatively close, you can COUNT on the complaints to start popping up about the terrible officiating--and of course the biased announcers. How about playing better basketball?

This is the tournament: They always let the players play more in the tournament. I thought the officiating was quite solid. Massengale bodied a Pitt guard out of bounds with 2 minutes in the game--pretty key play at a time when we were hanging on. She wasn't called for a foul. Also, Pitt is a pretty good defensive team. Let's stop being small town for a few days--at least until the Gonzaga game starts and you can start again complaining about the officials--and those anti-UT announcers!
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Well just because you are paranoid, does not mean that they are not out to get you and sometimes "HOMERS" get it right. MC is actually a good sports journalist and she would not lambast the officiating for no reason.

NEWS FLASH - them fancy Big City folks also complain about officiating too.

Now, I am surprised that Ariel did not get called for a foul on the play you mentioned, given how the game was being called. However, it looked like she played really good defense in that situation. She did not given Kiesel much space on the baseline and moved her feet well. Like all night Kiesel, realizing that she was in jam, initiated the contact but this time did not get the bail out call.

And you remember when Keisel body checked Ariel three straight times in the backcourt with Ariel losing the ball on the third one? Ariel's incredulous expression at the no call said it all.

Or the late 2nd half steal where Keisel scored the lay up which brought the game to 4 points. It is a lot easier to get a steal when you are allowed to run through the opposing player, and grab her dribbling hand.

Officiating aside, the LVs should have, could have maintained a more comfortable margin down the stretch. They lost their composure in some key stretches.
 
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madtownvol said:
Well just because you are paranoid, does not mean that they are not out to get you and sometimes "HOMERS" get it right. MC is actually a good sports journalist and she would not lambast the officiating for no reason.

NEWS FLASH - them fancy Big City folks also complain about officiating too.

Now, I am surprised that Ariel did not get called for a foul on the play you mentioned, given how the game was being called. However, it looked like she played really good defense in that situation. She did not given Kiesel much space on the baseline and moved her feet well. Like all night Kiesel, realizing that she was in jam, initiated the contact but this time did not get the bail out call.

And you remember when Keisel body checked Ariel three straight times in the backcourt with Ariel losing the ball on the third one? Ariel's incredulous expression at the no call said it all.

Or the late 2nd half steal where Keisel scored the lay up which brought the game to 4 points. It is a lot easier to get a steal when you are allowed to run through the opposing player, and grab her dribbling hand.

Officiating aside, the LVs should have, could have maintained a more comfortable margin down the stretch. They lost their composure in some key stretches.
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Exactly right; saw it in person and came home and watched it on replay...the refs were pitiful for two games...at least the two pony tails...the two men only looked OK in comparison to what else was on the court.

And I thought Ariel fouled on that one...looked like she took a lesson from "Pitts ball". Refs probably didn't call it because they got confused and assumed that kind of play was from a Pitt player :)
 
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madtownvol said:
Eyewitness commentary on the officiating.

The first one is classic:

Officials go to monitor. Unless there a how-to-ref guide on it, it's an utter waste of time. Fans are letting officials have it.

Maria M. Cornelius @mmcornelius · 15h 15 hours ago

Holly just shakes her head ... this crew had better sprint off the floor and out of town.

This crew should not call an exhibition game, much less @NCAAWomensBKB postseason matchup.

Holly still has a cast. She should club an official.

I think Pat Summitt should storm the court. That would be the best basketball moment ever. :)

Holly has every right to be pissed. Pitt has hammered Tennessee all game. Nary a whistle. Play resumes, and crowd is raining boos.
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We were taking a beating, but, to me, it's just a continuation of the regular season. Nothing has changed. This season was the most physically played games that I've ever seen. Jus' sayin'.

GO LADYVOLS!
 
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armchair said:
Cornelius is a massive HOMER, as are most of our fans of course. The idea that fans and a homer like her are objective is laughable. If a game is relatively close, you can COUNT on the complaints to start popping up about the terrible officiating--and of course the biased announcers. How about playing better basketball?

This is the tournament: They always let the players play more in the tournament. I thought the officiating was quite solid. Massengale bodied a Pitt guard out of bounds with 2 minutes in the game--pretty key play at a time when we were hanging on. She wasn't called for a foul. Also, Pitt is a pretty good defensive team. Let's stop being small town for a few days--at least until the Gonzaga game starts and you can start again complaining about the officials--and those anti-UT announcers!
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Have to agree with you to some extent.
Virtually every game we play there are posts complaining about the officiating and how we are getting the short end of the stick as far as calls go (Which is different than bad officiating for both sides). This makes us exactly like every other teams board. If you visit our opposition's board after a game, you will find similar complaints about the officiating only from the opposite viewpoint. So, who's right ? The refs can't "hate" both teams where the other team is getting the majority of questionable calls in their favor.
What I would like to see is at least a reduction in the whining about the officiating being against us. I would like to see us rise above the pettiness that other boards wallow in. We're better than that. Or at least I think we could be.
 
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What I would like to see is better overall officiating. With so many complaining, I would think there's a problem with it.
 
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Slydell said:
What I would like to see is better overall officiating. With so many complaining, I would think there's a problem with it.
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I'm not denying that the officiating should be better. I'm saying that I would like to see less "officials hate us" posts. It just makes us look like we're grasping at straws.
I think we're better than that.
 
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volnationnj said:
Have to agree with you to some extent.
Virtually every game we play there are posts complaining about the officiating and how we are getting the short end of the stick as far as calls go (Which is different than bad officiating for both sides). The refs can't "hate" both teams where the other team is getting the majority of questionable calls in their favor.
What I would like to see is at least a reduction in the whining about the officiating being against us. I would like to see us rise above the pettiness that other boards wallow in. We're better than that. Or at least I think we could be.
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I get what you are saying. And the idea is that bad officiating, like random errors should even out over the course of the game. That bad calls wash out principle probably holds in most games, except some calls can have a bigger weight on a game than others. Like a bad call that puts a key player in foul trouble, which seemed to happen to Izzy more than a few times.

Against Pitt, the refs seemed to have a systematic bias toward the smaller players who were allowed to push LVs out of position when our players had the box out, to consistently violate the hand check rule, and absolutely maul our post players. Sure, the LVs probably got a way with some things but I don't think in this game it evened out at all.

As for whining, hey, the LVs won so no one is using bad refs as an excuse because the LVs don't need any.
 
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I think the blonde with the long ponytail must have just been picked up off the street and donned a striped shirt.
 
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You just have to watch all the games to see the refs are not good quality refs. If it takes you 2 minutes to review a call then you can't see. I saw one ref go over to another ref to ask what was the call when it was a time out and not a foul, not really aware of the game. I remember on lady ref raising her hand for a foul even before there was slight contact on a drive to the bucket.
And the SEC is the blame for hiring OJT personnel!

GoVols!!!
 
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If the Lady Vols would stop the turnovers and trying to make the impossible passes that turn into turnovers....missing layups and having wide open 5 or 7 foot shots and trying to pass the ball in such a tight window that turns into turnovers.....UConn and Lady vols was the best teams in woman's basketball but it's not the case now....UConn would kill us...if we had more hustle out of the other player's like Carter and Graves do then the team would be so much better....if the coaches and player's don't get there act together we will never make it to the final 4....the Lady Vols of old would have beaten Pitt by 30...we have enough talent to make the final 4 but we are going to have to stop letting teams back into the game....I sure miss the Lady Vols of OLD....I do not blame the freshmen the upper classmen are not doing there job....either change this or set home and watch the Final 4 on TV.....
 
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a330m said:
by the way if you did not let teams back into games you would not have to worry about the REFS
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I think bad calls and non calls at strategic times will let a team back into the game. It's not how many bad fouls are called or not called, but when they are called or let go.
 
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armchair said:
Cornelius is a massive HOMER, as are most of our fans of course. The idea that fans and a homer like her are objective is laughable. If a game is relatively close, you can COUNT on the complaints to start popping up about the terrible officiating--and of course the biased announcers. How about playing better basketball?
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This. Apparently OP hasn't followed a Maria twitter feed during a game before. Half the tweets are ALWAYS b&^%ing about the officials.

If you want objective analysis and actual basketball insight, I suggest following Fleser....
 
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Slydell said:
I think bad calls and non calls at strategic times will let a team back into the game. It's not how many bad fouls are called or not called, but when they are called or let go.
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A perfect example of that was the call in the Duke/ MS State game when, at the 1:02 mark, a foul was called on Dillingham of MS State, on what everyone, except the refs, agreed was a blatant offensive foul by Duke's Greenwell. Result - Duke goes up by 9 points (after a stupid technical by Vic Shaeffer) and the game is essentially over. Had the correct call been made, MS State would have had the chance to cut the lead to 4 or even 3. An entirely different ballgame, and potentially a game changer!

Jim
 
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CannonVol80 said:
A perfect example of that was the call in the Duke/ MS State game when, at the 1:02 mark, a foul was called on Dillingham of MS State, on what everyone, except the refs, agreed was a blatant offensive foul by Duke's Greenwell. Result - Duke goes up by 9 points (after a stupid technical by Vic Shaeffer) and the game is essentially over. Had the correct call been made, MS State would have had the chance to cut the lead to 4 or even 3. An entirely different ballgame, and potentially a game changer!

Jim
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Ughhhhh I said that had to be one of the WORST calls I have ever seen! I didn't understand the refs logic at all wit that call!
 
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Congrats Lady VOLS. Sounds like you got past your bad game along with bad officiating. Good luck the rest of the way.
 
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volfaninutah said:
Congrats Lady VOLS. Sounds like you got past your bad game along with bad officiating. Good luck the rest of the way.
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You are probably aware, but some of the best tamales I've ever purchased from a store are just down the street from you in Sunset.
 
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Darth_Vol said:
This. Apparently OP hasn't followed a Maria twitter feed during a game before. Half the tweets are ALWAYS b&^%ing about the officials.

If you want objective analysis and actual basketball insight, I suggest following Fleser....
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She is playing to a Tennessee audience much like a teams radio play by play person. So, bias is expected in that format.
But, as far as personal bias, I believe that Maria is a UNC grad/fan.
 
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