Sweet 16 Chat
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AZ not as cocky tonight!
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We better be ready tomorrow night.- - Just ask Gonzaga - - or Arizona - - - or Duke
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@jayballer67 said in Sweet 16 Chat:
We better be ready tomorrow night.- - Just ask Gonzaga - - or Arizona - - - or Duke
We will be
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Late whistle
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I respect Zags. Done an amazing job to go from the miracle mid major against Zona to a near NC.
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Nance yells for every duk basket and just matter of facts it for Techs
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Tech taking every punch
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Lol dude got mauled at the rim
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Where’s the hand check fouls?
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Feels like this is getting away from Tech
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Cougs keeping the cats at arms length
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@wissox Don’t believe I have seen hardly any handcheck fouls called in the tourney.
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So soft a call
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Go red raider hackers
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Huge 3
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Phantom foul
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@DanR said in Sweet 16 Chat:
Phantom foul
Tech got 3 so we have to give dook the same chance even if they shoot at the rim
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I Still think tech is going to pull this one out
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These games are too late. Big soccer games big s16 games past midnight. West coast be damned.
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Big duke dude with an impressive dunk then a couple mistakes
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This Tech team is tough as a $2 steak
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Dueling jacking threes at this point. One turnover prob is the difference
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(Only commenting here so I don’t scare my dog and piss off my wife)
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I am nauseated by the commentators excessively drooling over Duke.
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Travel.
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That’ll do it
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F***
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Crumbled in the last 3 minutes. Damn it.
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Stupid turnover and shit the bed. Couldn’t even foul
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Ok we’re alive!
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Life support
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Can’t beat 8
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Duke is going to win the NC. You can see it coming a mile away. It’s all setting up so perfectly and it’s nauseating to watch.
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Refs can’t block shots
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Arms!!
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I can’t get 1986 FF out of my mind when that cheater scammed us out of a chance at a NC. 26 fouls against us, 14 them. We lose by 4. If twitter was a thing then…
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F*ck. Let the slobberfest begin. God, I hate Duke.
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Good for duke not fouling that half
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Look at K. Probably Telling all the tech kids they are “better than that”. What a pompous MF.
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3 number 1s go down before the elite eight, with KU still to play. Tourney has gone off the rails
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Man, Houston surviving some big brain farts
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Houston freaked about the traps. Edwards killing the 3’s
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We’re the last 1 standing
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@FarmerJayhawk you should delete that
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The K knob slobbering on ESPN and TBS is gross
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i avoided nausea by proxying the watch with your thread. Rough. Duck Fuke.
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Refs had nothing to do with TT falling apart on about 5 straight possessions when they gave up the lead. A couple turnovers, guys going 3 ptr crazy. Then they tightened up again, but that was what killed them.
Love this fan base–when lots of calls are made against Texas or TT when we play them, we say it is because their hard defense strategy includes lots of hacking while we go inside. When they play other teams, it is always some anti-whoever-we-want-to-win strategy.
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@mayjay If there isn’t some conspiracy among refs than how do you explain KU not winning the championship every year? You CAN’T CAN YOU!!!
Real talk, refs in college ref too many games during the season and that leads to bad nights and games for everyone. But specifically, this season and tournament have been particularly bad when it comes to officiating. Every game has turned into a hockey game and to me it’s a direct result of inconsistent officiating. The exact same level of contact is a foul sometimes but not others. There seems to be a “let them play” mentality until it gets out of control, then call it tight for a while to reign it back in. This is not how officiating should work. A certain level of contact should be a foul regardless of time, score, foul count, player, coach, team, etc. But that doesn’t seem to be the case.
I don’t honestly think there is some conspiracy to get K the title or keep KU out but if you think there isn’t bias among refs, you have an unrealistic perception of the way humans operate. Refs naturally want to “keep it even” when it comes to calling fouls. We’ve been trained to believe equal equals fair. So if one team is in the double bonus and the other has 2 fouls, it’s natural to feel an urge to call more fouls on the team with less. It is also natural for fans to believe allowing it to get to that 7-2 disparity means things weren’t called fairly up to that point.
The truth is there doesn’t need to be any backroom deals or pay offs to refs because human incompetence and implicit bias are more than enough to get the job done. And successful coaches like K, Izzo, and Self work these inconsistencies to their maximum advantage.
