I walked out of the arena with 30 seconds in the clock. I am ok with bad officiating if it is just bad, but when they let one team absolutely mug the other team and don’t call a foul, and then call a touch foul on the other end, it is sad. We were good enough to beat Illinois, we were never going to overcome corrupt officiating. I guess they wanted to make sure they had the Chicago tv viewers and not the Iowa viewers. Just sad.
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If they play Duke, say goodbye to the slanted calls…. Also, Zona will throttle this Illini team if they make it that far…regardless of the partisan crowd in Indy.
Agreed, but Zona looks like they could throttle anyone. Turning the screws on ol' Pete.
The officials had nothing to do with tonight's loss. The Illini out rebounded Iowa nearly 2-1 and most were on the offensive glass. Couple that with poor shooting in the 2nd half and we were destined to lose. Next year Iowa needs to get a PG and a big in the portal.
LOL. Are you a professional comedian, or did you just stay at a Holiday Inn Express . . .
And how do you suppose the team--IOWA--that battled #1 Florida, the team with the largest rebounding margin (+15) in the nation to a draw on the boards was outrebounded so badly by Illinois? Do you suppose, and I'm asking for you to use your imagination here, do you suppose it could, at least somewhat, be because Illinois and its rugby players were allowed to elbow, push, and shove Iowa out of the way all night long?
Well, here's the thing: You don't have to use your imagination. Just use your eyes. Go back and watch the video. The evidence is clear and irrefutable. Hell, look at that rebound on a free throw where the Illinois guy uses his elbow to clobber Koch in the neck. Koch goes over to the official and complains, and the official apparently tells the Illinois player, "Don't do that." LOL
It should have been a flagrant foul. And that's just one of dozens of examples.
And as for next year, what Iowa needs most is a schedule filled with competent refs who will call the rules of basketball fairly, like they did in the Nebraska game. Or maybe Iowa needs to start scouting the Mr. Universe competitions and bring in some maulers. If they wanna play rugby on the basketball court, let's have some guys who can do that. Just having basketball players is a huge disadvantage against teams like Illinois, especially when you combine it with the absolute incompetent, biased, ridiculous excuse for officiating we saw last night.
Say what you want about the officiating - or say officiating is never the problem if you want - but Cooper has got to be a bit bruised up on his upper body.
Between getting attacked with a fairly vicious elbow and an arm swing on the rebounding action of a possible ILL FT miss and then getting elbowed twice and shoved around while trying to guard Wagler coming off a screen, but somehow being called for a foul while being assaulted, he has to be feeling the body blows he endured last night.
We will never agree if you try and tell me those were legal plays by the Illini players.
And this isn't mentioning the number of times that a non-foul when Iowa had the ball was a foul just seconds later when ILL did, in even less egregious conditions.
Or Wagler not being assessed an F1 for throwing his leg up to trip Banks.
Or that the ref called the common foul in the first place instead of letting Iowa fast break with advantage instead.
Between getting attacked with a fairly vicious elbow and an arm swing on the rebounding action of a possible ILL FT miss and then getting elbowed twice and shoved around while trying to guard Wagler coming off a screen, but somehow being called for a foul while being assaulted, he has to be feeling the body blows he endured last night.
We will never agree if you try and tell me those were legal plays by the Illini players.
And this isn't mentioning the number of times that a non-foul when Iowa had the ball was a foul just seconds later when ILL did, in even less egregious conditions.
Or Wagler not being assessed an F1 for throwing his leg up to trip Banks.
Or that the ref called the common foul in the first place instead of letting Iowa fast break with advantage instead.
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I’m not losing sleep over the other no calls because they generally go both ways. However, these two were beyond annoying. It should’ve been a Flagrant 1 on Wagler for tripping.
Unfortunately basketball doesn’t have a rule to let the refs play an advantage like soccer, but the NBA clear path rule is a must in college ball. A common foul isn’t harsh enough when you intentionally stop a run away fast break by fouling. You should be giving up 2 FTs and the ball.
I don’t know if those calls going in favor of Iowa changes the outcome or not, but they were undeniably at a crucial point in the game.