The Official 2017 "Running Commentary Of Every Single Game" Thread

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But where are these refs that are better than what is out there? I watch basically every level of basketball and people complain about refs universally across levels.

I would say it's time for the NCAA to figure out how to be in charge of their refs all season. However they are in charge of them during the tournament. So is it automatic that officiating will improve if they are in charge of them?

Believe me, half the fans will hate the officials no matter what, every Game at every level. Just the way it is. Doesn't necessarily mean they were bad. Officiating is hard, it's hard to make every call correctly, it's hard to say you got everything right unless you call absolutely EVERYTHING, and nobody wants to watch that trash. But, some of these crucial calls late in the game cannot be messed up especially when they have the availability of replay. I've reffed with plenty of great refs at the high school level, most of them just have no desire to move up to the big time. So I don't know that it's going to get a lot better, unless the NCAA starts to discipline officials more. Almost all of the college officials I've reffed with all think they know it all and are horrible to be partnered with. In reality they should be studying the rules constantly and trying to get better just like anyone else, but I don't think a lot of them do because there haven't been many (any) consequences for doing a poor job.

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[phenom1990]

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Believe me, half the fans will hate the officials no matter what, every Game at every level. Just the way it is. Doesn't necessarily mean they were bad. Officiating is hard, it's hard to make every call correctly, it's hard to say you got everything right unless you call absolutely EVERYTHING, and nobody wants to watch that trash. But, some of these crucial calls late in the game cannot be messed up especially when they have the availability of replay. I've reffed with plenty of great refs at the high school level, most of them just have no desire to move up to the big time. So I don't know that it's going to get a lot better, unless the NCAA starts to discipline officials more. Almost all of the college officials I've reffed with all think they know it all and are horrible to be partnered with. In reality they should be studying the rules constantly and trying to get better just like anyone else, but I don't think a lot of them do because there haven't been many (any) consequences for doing a poor job.

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No argument from me on whether the officiating can improve. I'm just not optimistic that measures can be put in when a ref ability to do more tournament games is already dependent on their performance in these games.

[WaitTilNextYear]

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Ouch, Rhode Island just thinking about the 3.

[phenom1990]

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Besides Princeton, I can't think of another team that got a good look down 3 in the last 30 seconds of this tournament.

[cabra1]

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Live by the iso die by the iso

[DamnYanks2]

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Teams just going brain dead in crunch time.

[WaitTilNextYear]

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Too bad the Midwest Region is the only one in my bracket looking clean right now...stupid East Region.

[canes21]

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I see the refs didn't want Rhode Island to win in the final 10 minutes. Every single call went Oregon's way. That last charge was atrocious.

[Psyblast]

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Michigan/Oregon will be very interesting.

[BunnyHardaway]

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Duke up 7 at half despite being a trainwreck offensively. I'll take it.

[rkwittem]

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Duke-SC the runaway winner of worst game so far

[phenom1990]

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Please don't call a flagrant here.

[cabra1]

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please don't call this a ****ing flagrant

[cabra1]

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i would've legitimately done with this tournament. commentators causing a panic for no reason lol.

[phenom1990]

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CBS/Turner editors are going to have a hard time finding shots to be in One Shining Moment.