Just watched the game again in real time this afternoon (Wednesday).
Wisconsin was up by a point at 10:42 remaining when W coach started his first big whine to make the officials review a play he saw differently. Replay proved W coach wrong but he and the largely W crowd in the stadium began to feel ALL the calls were going against W.
They most definitely were NOT. A couple of questionable but important calls went against D in the first half. D’s coach could have whined but did not because it was the championship game and D had been coached on what to expect from several coaches who had been there before.
Kaminsky grabbed Okafor with both arms around him as Okafor made a shot and yet a deliberate foul (a technical) was not called against Kaminsky, as Nance had suggested.
The W fans began to boo the refs’ calls in spite of most of them being the correct calls. Jim Nance and Grant Hill (showing he’s not partisan) suggested a couple of calls not favoring W were wrong and W viewers posting on this thread went with the announcers’ suggestions. The calls were not provably wrong; they just didn’t go the way W fans wanted.
Summing it up, the W fans (or D detractors) on this thread have a right to vent, and they sure did, but many of these complaints have been based on emotion and disappointment and not on dispassionate facts.
The game was refereed well enough for both teams. Duke won the game that could have gone either way.
W’s coach was a classless horse’s butt for all his public blame shifting, whining, and detraction from Duke’s victory. Furthermore, he looks kinda crazy to me.
Grant Hill is so so so eager to prove he’s not a Duke homer, that he goes the other way quite often. It’s irritating as hell. I hate it when he does a Duke game. He’s like the GOP estabs...so afraid of what people think, in a way.
Wisconsin had nothing to complain about in the first half....numerous things went their way. Duke was determined to drive the ball on them in the second half, and they did. Duke was just quick enough to beat them.
You lost me right there.