I normally have a lot of respect for the referees, but these refs deserve the criticism.<\/p>\n
They are letting the centers elbow each other without calling it.\u00a0 Then, they let one of the LSU players come over the back of the Iowa player for the rebound, pushing the Iowa player and the ball out of bounds – giving LSU the ball.<\/p>\n
Then, they finally call a foul on LSU shooting a layup and call a deadball technical foul on Iowa’s Caitlin Clark for throwing the ball behind her back out of play.\u00a0 It was foolish on Clark, but I wouldn’t be surprised if she thought she was sending the ball to a ref (there should have been one where the ball was heading).\u00a0 Now, Clark has 4 fouls for something that was ridiculous.\u00a0 In the classic “ball don’t lie” moment, the LSU player missed both technical FTs.<\/p>\n
But the game is completely out of control at this point.\u00a0 There is a point of letting the players play, and there is a point where you have to call a clean game.\u00a0 The refs have been so inconsistent in calling touch fouls and then calling nothing.\u00a0 It has been kind of awful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I normally have a lot of respect for the referees, but these refs deserve the criticism. They are letting the centers elbow each other without calling it.\u00a0 Then, they let one of the LSU players come over the back of the Iowa player for the rebound, pushing the Iowa player and the ball out of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2023-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2636,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635\/revisions\/2636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}