Yeah, I was and did. I probably watch 60 hours or so of the tournament every year. It's the best sporting event in the world. I love Texas basketball. I love college basketball just as much or more. It's why I was glued to the set over the last two weeks. It's why I'll be watching Saturday and Monday. I wish Texas was still playing. It isn't. The officials had nothing, zero, to do with that. Sans the occasional weirdness like the end of the Memphis game, for example, the officiating in the tournament has been good. I've no ties to referees on any level. No interest in them whatsoever, except that they do their jobs. They have so far.
Cunningham call? He's allowed to hold his place in position for a rebound. He's not allowed to backpedal and take another player out to secure a rebound. That's a staple of Cunningham's game. He got called for it in a crucial moment today and it was the right call. Damn tough player. But he committed a foul.
Miami ended the game on a 35-16 run over the last 10 minutes. We played really, no extremely, well for the for the first 30 minutes of the game. We played bad, and dumb, basketball over the last quarter. That last foul by Carr was a microcosm of our meltdown. But Miami made play after play when we struggled to make one, and it deserves credit for that. At the end of the day, it wasn't all about us and had zero to do with the officials. There are saps who will cling to that for awhile. They can't be helped.
This was a kick in the groin today. It sucks and will for while. We needed to play better and just didn't when it mattered. That's it. Nothing more. On top pf that you give credit to a team that performed better than you when it mattered most.