your first comment was I didn't understand the game so I give you stats to back up my statement that mercer shot lights out today from the 2....which they did.
i watch a lot of b-ball...i've played a lot of b-ball in my younger days. i'll say it again....if this game is at cameron indoor, mercer is run out of the gym. duke doesn't lose to chump teams like mercer at home plain and simple. K would be chewing the refs and they'd get the calls.
i guess you don't like post 26 either as that poster noted the same thing about the refs.
if you actually keep up with b-ball you know puke has a reputation for getting the favorable whistle in games. didn't happen today though. a lot of people were wondering how puke would do if the calls were evened out. now we know.
you don't like it. fine.
you jumped into my conversation so just jump out.
I am an NCAA referee (2 different sports other than basketball one of which has a lot of attention). Speaking for the entire core of officiating professionals I can promise you no coach gets a favorable whistle no matter how much they chew on us. We have no stake in the game except to keep it fair and someone running their mouth is hardly a threat to that impartiality. The men and women who wear the stripes do not bend to that pressure. By the time we are at this level I assure you we have heard it all.
And this is just a technical point...we are not referees we are officials. The referee is one of the positions on the officiating crew, usually the official with the final officiating say in that particular game but not always. Basketball has a referee and two umpires as part of the free if I am not mistaken. Football as a referee, umpire, head linesman, line judge, field judge, side judge and back judge. All are officials.
I know the reputation - among the low information dweebs on ESPN.com comment boards, and among freepers who wouldn’t know a free throw from an alley oop - and it’s statistically been disproven time and again and remains only among the greivously jealous.
I also know it was your idiotic comments that took away from Mercer’s performance. U B waaaay over yo head here.