Worst officiated sequence

[rutger80]

This may have been brought up in the game thread, but that sequence when Harper got called for a charge and on the return trip Mag got called for a block, were 2 horrible calls. The Husker defender was clearly not set and Harper did not lower his shoulder. Meanwhile, on the other end, Mag was standing still outside the circle, long before the Nebby player took off. Just pathetic.
(Not even going to discuss the phantom foul on the last play)

 

[new jersey1_rivals661559]

Agree. Officiating was bad. Last call was absurd. There has to be some accountability for calls like that.

 

[Kbee3]

Agree. Officiating was bad. Last call was absurd. There has to be some accountability for calls like that.

So true.

 

[SirScarlet]

8 on 5

Disgraceful

 

[hoquat63]

On Nebraska board one poster said (at end of 1st half) it was best officiated half in NE favor they’ve had all year .

 

[RU MAN]

This may have been brought up in the game thread, but that sequence when Harper got called for a charge and on the return trip Mag got called for a block, were 2 horrible calls. The Husker defender was clearly not set and Harper did not lower his shoulder. Meanwhile, on the other end, Mag was standing still outside the circle, long before the Nebby player took off. Just pathetic.
(Not even going to discuss the phantom foul on the last play)

I'm glad we won, but the officiating tonight was a freakin' disaster. Whoever these clowns were should hang themselves in shame for the ****** officiating. The calls against us were pathetic, and the lack of calls against Nebraska were comical. I'm glad we pulled it out, but tonight these officials should be BANNED from ever officiating a B1G game again. They were HORRIBLE!!!

 

[richthedentist]

I'm glad we won, but the officiating tonight was a freakin' disaster. Whoever these clowns were should hang themselves in shame for the ****** officiating. The calls against us were pathetic, and the lack of calls against Nebraska were comical. I'm glad we pulled it out, but tonight these officials should be BANNED from ever officiating a B1G game again. They were HORRIBLE!!!

This is a nightly occurrence in the Big in the Illinois Nortwestern game a very key play towards the end of the game which to me the Illinois player blatantly double dribbled and no call the announcers were even befuddled on how this call was missed you have 3 refs and not one is watching the guy dribbling the ball!
The end of the Northwestern MSU game last week OMG watch the last minute of that game the refs trying to give the game to MSU the reffing in this league is horrible
Even against MD a game we deserved to lose they missed at least 5 traveling calls
Just pathetic given what these guys get paid per game they should be held more accountable and they are not

 

[Jtung230]

pike needs to show a little fight for the team. Can’t rollover all the time.

 

[Knight Owl]

Home cookin’ in the BIG. Similar to when RHJ got fouled against Iowa except there was maybe even less contact…

Rutgers was still in good shape because the odds were like 26% he would make three in a row.

 

[MLBash93]

Look up brooks wells on Google. Prety sure he is a Nebraska grad

 

[biazza38]

I’m not sure what type of charge call is worse, the one where the secondary defender slides in and is clearly moving or when the man guarding the ball “beats his man to the spot” lol and just falls.

 

[Shelby65]

Was it Reiber who was backpedaling in the lane on D lane to get out of the way of a driving Neb player who ran him down and still got the call ?

Almost as bad as the end game foul on the three pointer.

 

[RUChoppin]

My wife missed a lot of the first half, and when she came in my summary was: "End of the day, we're playing like crap... but this officiating has been brutal."

If someone based their understanding of block/charge on this game alone, they'd have no idea what the rule is.

 

[Jtung230]

My wife missed a lot of the first half, and when she came in my summary was: "End of the day, we're playing like crap... but this officiating has been brutal."

If someone based their understanding of block/charge on this game alone, they'd have no idea what the rule is.

Props to you wife. My wife just says oh no, Rutgers has a game today.

 

[RUJMM78]

Was it Reiber who was backpedaling in the lane on D lane to get out of the way of a driving Neb player who ran him down and still got the call ?

Almost as bad as the end game foul on the three pointer.

Rutgers had a 3 point lead and Baker should not have been anywhere close to getting a foul call similar to the Iowa game where Harper was fouled.A better option was to foul when the Nebraska player crossed mid court and would only get two shots.

 

[Shelby65]

JMMM…. except that the player clearly wasn’t shooting yet.

 

[wheezer]

Was it Reiber who was backpedaling in the lane on D lane to get out of the way of a driving Neb player who ran him down and still got the call ?

Almost as bad as the end game foul on the three pointer.

I am convinced that SOME games are called for the home team late.....

as mentioned, the 3 pt foul on Geo just did not happen....

and the other calls mentioned here, the call FOR Harper in the last seconds of the Iowa home game.

and, there is nothing you can do about it....it is what it is, all that can happen is that the coach goes a bit crazy and you get the ref to understand he jobbed you....maybe you get a break from that guy the next go round

 

[RUChoppin]

Baker was trying to go over a screen and may have gotten him on the arm before he gathered for the shot. Incidental contact, really, but at most should have been a 2 shot foul. Had that miraculously gone in, we could have lost on a BS call.

 

[RedTeamUpstream94]

My wife missed a lot of the first half, and when she came in my summary was: "End of the day, we're playing like crap... but this officiating has been brutal."

If someone based their understanding of block/charge on this game alone, they'd have no idea what the rule is.

100% you had their 5* completely run over mag = block

then Harper has a clean line to the basket and the Nebraska defender slides in front at the last second = charge

was absurd

 

[RUChoppin]

100% you had their 5* completely run over mag = block

then Harper has a clean line to the basket and the Nebraska defender slides in front at the last second = charge

was absurd

The first charge on Harper in the first couple of minutes was ticky-tack, and more flop than charge, imo. The second charge was more legit. The third one was 100% a block (made worse by Mag getting run over just a couple plays earlier).

The officiating was crazy, though. It was a hugely physical game, with a lot of contact going uncalled all over. Both teams were bumping and banging, on shots, on ball handlers, and away from the ball.... with no calls. Usually that sort of officiating works out in our favor, because we can be more aggressive defensively.... but then they'd make these touch-foul calls at other times, so there was no rhyme or reason to it.

I think ultimately the inconsistent officiating worked out in Nebraska's favor overall.. but it was pretty universally bad.

 

[Miggins]

It was brutal officiating. I think the worst sequence though was semi fast break I think Hyatt was going to rim, defender got body first then block, no call. Harper got rebound and was mauled, no call. Nebraska then on break, we block ball clean, then follow through body contact and call on RU

 

[rubaseball78_rivals]

Rutgers had a 3 point lead and Baker should not have been anywhere close to getting a foul call similar to the Iowa game where Harper was fouled.A better option was to foul when the Nebraska player crossed mid court and would only get two shots.

Agree with you RU should have purposely fouled. Use token pressure to use up some clock and then foul when crossing mud court. They get 2 shots. For us we are not great blocking out on foul shots so that would argument against.

 

[AZBlues]

Baker was trying to go over a screen and may have gotten him on the arm before he gathered for the shot. Incidental contact, really, but at most should have been a 2 shot foul. Had that miraculously gone in, we could have lost on a BS call.

There was definitely contact as Geo reached out to try to impede Webster somewhat, prior to Webster planting for his shot. Contact seemed to continue as the shooter was planting. There was definitely no contact from just prior to the last photo onward, as Webster is about to begin the upward jump for his shot.. Is there any possibility that the contact in the second photo could be legitimately interpreted by a ref as being in the act of shooting? Or was it just a bad call at a bad time?

 

[SirScarlet]

pike needs to show a little fight for the team. Can’t rollover all the time.

I 1000% agree with this and have said this for a couple of years. Him and the athletic director need to be working the conference behind the scenes if nothing else.

When Greg took the football program over within the first couple of years him and Mulcahy were sending letters to the conference every week.

We need to do the same. The treatment we are getting is beyond ridiculous. It is beyond absurd.

 

[wheezer]

There was definitely contact as Geo reached out to try to impede Webster somewhat, prior to Webster planting for his shot. Contact seemed to continue as the shooter was planting. There was definitely no contact from just prior to the last photo onward, as Webster is about to begin the upward jump for his shot.. Is there any possibility that the contact in the second photo could be legitimately interpreted by a ref as being in the act of shooting? Or was it just a bad call at a bad time?

nice sequence.... photo 2 shows contact at a time of no effort to put the ball up, photo 3 clearly shows no contact when the player is starting the move to shoot.

 

[anon_xekqhstck0ygt]

There was definitely contact as Geo reached out to try to impede Webster somewhat, prior to Webster planting for his shot. Contact seemed to continue as the shooter was planting. There was definitely no contact from just prior to the last photo onward, as Webster is about to begin the upward jump for his shot.. Is there any possibility that the contact in the second photo could be legitimately interpreted by a ref as being in the act of shooting? Or was it just a bad call at a bad time?

Look where the ref is, there is no way he can see thru the Nebby player and make that call. from the baseline. It's simply not his call to make from there. Plus the screener looks to be pushing geo

 

[RU206]

moving screen

 

[mildone_rivals]

Last week, we benefited from a terrible call at the end of the game. This week, we were the victim of one that was just as bad. Two weeks ago, I forget which game it was but it was right before ours, there was yet another end-of-game weak *** foul call by an official.

It used to be very rare that refs would make light touch foul calls near the end of a game. Now it seems to be the rule rather than the exception. Not a good trend, IMO.

Last night's game was about as poorly officiated a game as I've seen this season, especially with some of the incredibly inconsistent charge or no-charge calls. Went both ways. They missed a ton of fouls Neb committed against our players, but they also handed some phantom foul calls on Nebraska where the replay showed little or no contact.

About the only consistent thing from the refs was the lack of consistency all game long. And I'm not one to pick on the refs.

 

[AZBlues]

Look where the ref is, there is no way he can see thru the Nebby player and make that call. from the baseline. It's simply not his call to make from there. Plus the screener looks to be pushing geo

The screener absolutely leaned backward into Geo as Geo was trying to get by.. But from looking at various images, I think the baseline ref had an unblocked view of the front of the shooter's body and arms, and of Geo's outreached arms.. The baseline ref is about a yard to the right of Geo and the shooter, and the screener isn't blocking his view of the body area where there was contact, since the potential contact areas are already to the right of the screener's body, and facing the involved ref.

 

[RUChoppin]

Look where the ref is, there is no way he can see thru the Nebby player and make that call. from the baseline. It's simply not his call to make from there. Plus the screener looks to be pushing geo

Great shot to show if Baker wasn't there, the screener would have fallen on his ***. Absolutely an illegal screen to make contact with Baker and push him into the ball handler, but Baker was able to recover and get his hands off him before he gathered for the shot and threw himself to the ground, lol

 

[Knight Owl]

Great shot to show if Baker wasn't there, the screener would have fallen on his ***. Absolutely an illegal screen to make contact with Baker and push him into the ball handler, but Baker was able to recover and get his hands off him before he gathered for the shot and threw himself to the ground, lol

Maybe Geo was handsy before the shot attempt because he knew he could put him on the line for two FT’s. Seems like a reasonable assumption.

 

[RU MAN]

During the game I was hoping Pike would get T-d up. That's how bad the officiating was to me. By doing so, Pike shows he's fighting for his kids. I think Pike is too nice sometimes in these games. I know during the game he talks to the officials like all coaches do. But some of those horrible calls against us (charges on Ron) and no calls on their kids plowing Reiber down, were beyond horrible. And Pike should have let them have it.

Someone reading this, correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't remember this officiating crew calling one of our games before. Am I right?

 

[AZBlues]

This may have been brought up in the game thread, but that sequence when Harper got called for a charge and on the return trip Mag got called for a block, were 2 horrible calls. The Husker defender was clearly not set and Harper did not lower his shoulder. Meanwhile, on the other end, Mag was standing still outside the circle, long before the Nebby player took off. Just pathetic.
(Not even going to discuss the phantom foul on the last play)

Agree about Mag. The only significant movement by Mag that I could see after the time of the screenshot below, was that he straightened his body and raised his arms in the air to prepare for the contact.



And regarding Harper's charge, the defender never stopped moving into Ron's path prior to the contact. The only thing I can think of that might make sense is that maybe the ref felt that Ron did lower his shoulder...

 

[richthedentist]

The screener absolutely leaned backward into Geo as Geo was trying to get by.. But from looking at various images, I think the baseline ref had an unblocked view of the front of the shooter's body and arms, and of Geo's outreached arms.. The baseline ref is about a yard to the right of Geo and the shooter, and the screener isn't blocking his view of the body area where there was contact, since the potential contact areas are already to the right of the screener's body, and facing the involved ref.

They set so many illegal screens in that game where they stuck out their shoulder just as our guy was going by it was ridiculous

 

[RUChoppin]

They set so many illegal screens in that game where they stuck out their shoulder just as our guy was going by it was ridiculous

Well, now that Myles Johnson isn't in the conference anymore, I guess they've just stopped calling illegal screens.

 

[LETSGORU91_]

This may have been brought up in the game thread, but that sequence when Harper got called for a charge and on the return trip Mag got called for a block, were 2 horrible calls. The Husker defender was clearly not set and Harper did not lower his shoulder. Meanwhile, on the other end, Mag was standing still outside the circle, long before the Nebby player took off. Just pathetic.
(Not even going to discuss the phantom foul on the last play)

Absolutely. Then add the phantom call on the three point attempt at the end. The refs tried their damndest to give Nebby the game. But when the ball doesn't go through the hoop enough, they just couldn't win. Reffing was absolutely brutal.