The officiating was horrible but....

[rutobs]

These things are all part of the game, in my mind, even though it did seem slanted against us. But if we just make our shots, we win the game. We fell in love with the 3 pointer in the 2nd half; that's what really hurt us. There was very little driving the lane or taking any jumpers around the foul line. If you want to get to the Tournament, the Sweet 16, or better, you have to overcome obstacles. We didn't do it last night; but it's only one game in a long season. We have to learn from this loss, take care of business next game, and get healthy, and we'll be fine.

Go RU!

 

[rubaseball78_rivals]

These things are all part of the game, in my mind, even though it did seem slanted against us. But if we just make our shots, we win the game. We fell in love with the 3 pointer in the 2nd half; that's what really hurt us. There was very little driving the lane or taking any jumpers around the foul line. If you want to get to the Tournament, the Sweet 16, or better, you have to overcome obstacles. We didn't do it last night; but it's only one game in a long season. We have to learn from this loss, take care of business next game, and get healthy, and we'll be fine.

Go RU!

The officiating yesterday was beyond just part of the game. Yes, there are bad calls in everygame that teams just need to find a way to overcome. Just go back to Steven Bardo's commentary all game.

 

[HeavenUniv.]

Next time at home, bury them! Don’t even give the refs any chance to steal the game from us.

 

[rutobs]

The officiating yesterday was beyond just part of the game. Yes, there are bad calls in everygame that teams just need to find a way to overcome. Just go back to Steven Bardo's commentary all game.

I agree with this, but at the end of the day, we have be able to overcome this. We had a 15-point lead; if we make a couple of more shots, and not live by the 3(which is not our game, btw), we have a great shot of pulling that game out. Minimally, making a few more shots stops their run, and would have given us a chance to re-group. Just didn't happen. I'm as frustrated as anyone. Let's just not let this loss linger into the other games next week and beyond.

 

[HeavenUniv.]

Even Steve Politi—

 

[greenknight]

The officiating decided the game 100%

 

[Kbee3]

The officiating decided the game 100%

So true.....and so sad.

 

[JavaDunk18]

We were burying them this time, then the refs took away the shovel..

 

[RuBird]

Myles with 5 fouls plus no Cliff was an issue. Losing Young for any length of time will be a bigger issue.

 

[RUChoppin]

These things are all part of the game, in my mind, even though it did seem slanted against us. But if we just make our shots, we win the game. We fell in love with the 3 pointer in the 2nd half; that's what really hurt us. There was very little driving the lane or taking any jumpers around the foul line. If you want to get to the Tournament, the Sweet 16, or better, you have to overcome obstacles. We didn't do it last night; but it's only one game in a long season. We have to learn from this loss, take care of business next game, and get healthy, and we'll be fine.

Go RU!

I don't think they "fell in love with the 3 pointer" so much as they were forced by the style of officiating to keep the ball out of the paint.

When our players penetrated, they took a lot of contact with no calls - this is what got Pike his T, arguing that Baker should have gotten a call on his penetration. It was a very clear strategy by OSU to foul us as we went to the hoop and make us earn it at the line.... but then the refs didn't send us to the line very often until the very end of the game when it was largely out of reach.

On the other end of the floor, though, we weren't allowed that same level of contact - which took Johnson (and ultimately even Doucoure) off the floor, because they weren't allowed to defend the way Young and Liddell were. Once Johnson was off the floor, it became that much harder to get an interior game going, and Harper/Mulcahy were getting bodied inside without calls, too.

So we ended up trying to adapt to the slant of officiating to start taking more threes and step back midrange shots, and they weren't falling. We were forced into a position both by OSU's strategy and the slanted officiating where we had to beat them with the longball, and that's not our team strength, despite the hot start from outside.