The UVA guard dribbled off his leg, went back and picked the ball up and dribbled again. That’s a double dribble! No call, game should be over, Auburn the winner.
Double dribble not called
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I don’t understand how not one of the announcers said anything about Jerome double dribbling before the final foul was called. He was dribbling the ball and dribble it off his foot. Wow they just showed it again and said it was how do they miss that!!!
I just started another post that’s so blatant these refs should never ref another game
It’s really a shame the way an otherwise classic game ended.
I said it the second it happened And not to mention the three announcers said Absolutely nothing when it happened
Gene Steratore Who is a college RAF and the referee analysis for the game just said it was a double dribble plain and simple
Ok that’s something that would happen to Rutgers if god forbid we ever get back to the final four in my lifetime
I think auburn team would eventually be able to stomach the last foul call because it legitimately was a foul (just one not always called). The fact that the ref stared at the play and didn’t call the double dribble in front of his face is going to be tough for them to swallow for all time.
That's that bad part about it. The ref was staring right at it...that means the ref simply didn't know the rules
Or the ref knew the rules but chose to disregard them because of other considerations.
I just assumed that it was some college rule that permitted what happened since the refs didn’t call it and the announcers didn’t say anything.
It was definitely a double dribble but in real time I didn’t notice. Assumed it was deflected rather than off his foot. Definitely a missed call though.
It’s the only thing I can think of that the ref somehow considered it a fluid stream of dribbling instead of counting that moment of picking up the ball and then a 2nd round of dribbling.
Was in the john at the bar when I heard everyone screaming. Auburn got hosed
All I can think is that the ref thought the Auburn defender touched it but it was clearly a double dribble. Strange.
Stop being “Game Lawyers”. The dribbler was being closely guarded. In real-time the official right there probably assumed the defender deflected the ball. Let the game breathe. The game is contested in real-time, not in replay or frame-by-frame mode. If you re-examine every call the games will be longer than college football games.
Was a double (and yes, I called it live).. but so many times you see that kind of thing not called.. guys losing the ball and then gathering it in and dribbling again.
But did you see how handsy Auburn was the whole game? Not long before that they pulled a guy's arm off the ball and there was no call.
Refs swallow the whistle mostly in these tourney games.. some teams take advantage of that. Have you ever seen so many regular season games with so few fouls at the end of the game?
As I type this the refs just ignored like 3 fouls in a row by Texas Tech.
But did you see how handsy Auburn was the whole game? Not long before that they pulled a guy's arm off the ball and there was no call.
Refs swallow the whistle mostly in these tourney games.. some teams take advantage of that. Have you ever seen so many regular season games with so few fouls at the end of the game?
As I type this the refs just ignored like 3 fouls in a row by Texas Tech.
C'mon, refs should know the rules and make the call. I'm not one of those people who think one call means all that much, as there are 40 minutes of calls in the game, but they should've gotten that one.
I don't mind the whistle swallowing in general but if that's the philosophy the ref wants to go with then he doesn't call that foul at the end to give the 3 free throws.
But that was a very easy call.. as they explained.. you cannot throw the shooters body off like that... I also noticed the ref was not looking at the shot at all.. I hate it when I see a ref looking at the hoop to see if the ball is gonna go in before he decides to make a call.
Well I did not want an ACC team in the final and I wanted a Big Ten team.. 2 losses today for me.
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But you can’t give the defense the edge either, allowing them to foul on the most important shot of the game.
I always thought a ref should call a game as though he had no idea of how much time is left and what the score is
That would be in theory, and I am sure that it often is not that way
You would have thought Pearl would have been screaming for the call
Maybe he was
Not that it would have changed anything
I was surprised Barkley missed it, too
If he missed it, that kind of tells you something about it
Maybe TV (even real time) had a better angle than the refs at that moment for some reason
I was more disappointed in the foul call on the 3 point shot that gave Virginia the winning points.There were far more obvious fouls during the game that weren't called .Both final four games were defensive battles where shots were contested on every possession.If you like defense ,these were games to video tape for further review.If fans prefer watching offense/scoring ,the remote was used to change channels.
The refs job is not to "assume" anything, they need to watch the play & enforce any rules violations, to assume means they were not watching what was happening
So the ref who was staring directly at the play “assumed” the ball was deflected? I was watching on tv and could see the ball went off his foot. Terrible job by the refs not to know the rules of the game they are getting paid to know.
Not everyone missed it. I started this post before the foul shots and no one had mentioned it on tv yet. I am sure many other viewers were also screaming “that’s a double dribble” at their tv’s as it happened. One possibility for the non-call, I think, is that the double dribble rule, like the traveling rule, has become so liberalized that it’s almost never called anymore. So perhaps the ref just wasn’t ready to make that call because he never does. He certainly blew it Big-time though. It was not a hard call at all.
Double dribble is probably the easiest violation to see and not controversial.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone other than the player who committed the violation argue a double dribble call.
For the ref to not see that or swallow his whistle is inexcusable and really makes it harder for me to justify yelling at the refs in my son’s 8U games.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone other than the player who committed the violation argue a double dribble call.
For the ref to not see that or swallow his whistle is inexcusable and really makes it harder for me to justify yelling at the refs in my son’s 8U games.