I mentioned this earlier this week, look at how Vandy is allowed to literally manhandle/hand check us on every possesion, it is comical the way the game is called on both sides, complete farce. I believe the referee posse can’t stand Cal,
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5 fouls the entire game. 
Said this in game thread. I've never seen a game where the defense was allowed to play 2-hand defense the entire game.
Unfortunately that's a bigger issue than we realize. We're NEVER able to fully unleash our size and speed.. the refs have equalized us all the way back to 2010 when we had FOUR guys foul out at UNC.
Yeah, I was commenting on that myself. It's criminal. Seriously, they were fouling but no calls. 5 fouls in game? It's a joke!5 fouls the entire game.
Tough to beat your man off the dribble when your defender literally has got his hands on your hips, seems like it is literally every game and I’m not an official brasher but damn.
It’s bad everywhere, ref’s just called Syracuse for a terrible charge
Case in point turn on North Carolina and watch the whistle they get
They were allowed to hand check our guards and throw their entire bodies into Oscar. We only got calls if they knocked us to the ground.
Teams are playing the you can’t call everything, there is so much hacking and grabbing again.
That charge call is one of the worst ones this year, his feet were sliding and he was in the air
No Vandy starters had a foul! Has that ever happened?
Unreal and they were extremely aggressive, flat joke
Officiating was bad to say the least but I thought for the first time this season we did a really good job of adjusting to the way the game was being called.
Kentucky should have shot more than 2 FTs vandy was bumping and committing contact all night, the fact Kentucky won by 16 is a really good sign
They were also moving on tons of their screens. You can't set a screen and then step out to make the defender have to run farther but they did.
Pitino’s UL teams were super bad for holding and grabbing. College basketball got away from that for a few years but now its back, unfortunately. It’s not fun basketball to watch.
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I'm not surprised. We have seen some really, really strange, one sided officiating in that gym more times than not and I don't know why.
And keep in mind.. we won, and it was never really in doubt.. so we kind of move on.
But what if this was a loss, with Vandy only having 5 fouls which absolutely is a difference maker? What if this loss bumps us down a seed, or worse, causes us to ultimately miss the tournament.
Officiating matters. And it's far too often Kentucky finds themselves on the **** end of it.
We had tonights debacle. Georgia trying to injure our players. MSU getting bailed out on a 4 on 5 call.. just this year alone. it's too often, and it's been holding us back.
But what if this was a loss, with Vandy only having 5 fouls which absolutely is a difference maker? What if this loss bumps us down a seed, or worse, causes us to ultimately miss the tournament.
Officiating matters. And it's far too often Kentucky finds themselves on the **** end of it.
We had tonights debacle. Georgia trying to injure our players. MSU getting bailed out on a 4 on 5 call.. just this year alone. it's too often, and it's been holding us back.
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We could but the walk ons would be in the game in the first half due to our players fouling out....seriously tho,it's a double standard when it comes to us..Some may disagree but we have all seen it happen.
Didn’t think refs were too bad. 15 total fouls on UK was likely a season low or close to it, especially against P5 schools.
Did anybody watch the ending of the Syracuse game. Refs handed them that game. Davis was falling backwards they call a charge and a flagrant one on a basketball move, then love shoves the guy and they call it on Syracuse
It definitely it but we get called for tacky fouls. Put subs in and foul like crazy then. Make them call it or the foul discrepancy will be so bad everyone will notice.
I had two big UK + UNC parlays tonight. Very fortunate. But what is up with the flagrant ones being called on offensive moves this year, lol? Kinda crazy.
Still 15-5, I’m grateful for an overall not stopping play that often game but it should have been about 15–13 at worst.