“Granted I’m biased, but it sure seems like Duke is getting the calls, big time. I hate that, especially when it’s so blatant.”
Uh, you have to be kidding. Hayward just played an extremely active first half, in an extremely physical game and he had zero fouls called on him. He got away with 3 or 4 obvious fouls that were not called.
It seems that the NCAA usually lets the teams run hard and fast (it just happens that this favors Duke because of their depth) and usually calls 3 or 4 more fouls against Dukes opponent. Once the teams start getting tired and Duke is up by a dozen or so, the refs will cal a few non-possesson changing fouls against Duke to even up the numbers and Duke wins. Normal Duke game.