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Go tech! Or Virginia!

Wait till next year. RCJH

Think they'll score?

55 63 Texas Tech

No team breaks 50 is my best prediction.

Pulling for Tech, but it wouldn't suck to have Virginia win even though they're ACC.

Culver needs to have a decent game. B12POY

my ass

I hope everyone took the under...

Looking at a 30-22 game at this rate

this is pathetic

Anyone know the referees names? I've been trying to find them on the W W W

According to my broadband world wide web,

https://www.newsleader.com/story/sports/2019/04/08/ncaa-championship-who-referees-officials-virginia-uva-texas-tech-basketball/3405652002/ ↗

The referees for the Virginia vs. Texas Tech title game are Ron Groover, Michael Stephens and Terry Wymer.

The alternate referee is Chris Rastatter.

thanks DanR. My sister dated a DanR in HS. Are you 6'6"?

@wissox 6-0. My cousin is 6-6. He's DonR though.

Francis keeping Tech in the game.

Italian stallion is in the house

Virginia is allowed to travel now.

that travel was obvious as hell

Tech getting loose finally. The way they beat KU down in Lubbock, this is more like what I expected

LOVE that baseline camera angle, CBS. Just show the entire game like that.

About what I expected...solid defense leading to less-than-stellar shooting. Could be a case of "last team to score wins".

Mooney is trying to do way to much for Tech

I love offense but I’m actually enjoying this rock fight. It’s like a classic pitchers duel. As long as both teams are playing this way, I think it’s a fun chess game.

Tech actually had an offensive strategy, but just missed shots (other than Mooney dribbling around on the perimeter nonsensically). I can't tell what Virginia is doing on offense.

Virginia has a Garrett

I think a lot of us have gotten "Curried."

We've been mesmerized by the three and the slam so much that we forget there are other ways to win the game.

scoring droughts are killing Tech. /captain obvious

Dang uva keeps making shots

Culver coming up dry during the biggest game of his career - -gonna killem. - -ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY

Culver heating up

tough to beat 60+% shooting, but UVA could even out and miss a few. Tech is still in it.

Refs gave Virginia 5 points on that travel no-call in the first half and the BS "jump ball" on Mooney's rebound. IMO

How the F was that not a tie up?

Man, I don't want Mooney to try to do too much, but that guy needs to take the open shot

Game is getting good. Odiase with the Chance to tie it under 4 timeout

DanR said:

Man, I don't want Mooney to try to do too much, but that guy needs to take the open shot

Just canned a contested one

Man, you gotta get that rebound Tech...

Culver kinda sucks tonight.

Culver is about as weak as Dedric

Tech ought to take their chances on a free throw contest

4-16 WOOF

Italian dressing

@DanR that dude killed us

@Crimsonorblue22 I like him!

off the blond guy

Tech ball

how did it hit the BACK of the the player's hand? Thank you.

Right call.

definitely a tie up there. LOL

What a mess

Nice move

Culver is the bees knees

Who woulda thunk that recruiting services got him so wrong

So, as long as all the tech players graduate and Beard takes a job at UCLA and Mahomes takes the chiefs to the Super Bowl victory ... I'm OK with Tech winning

Don't leave Guy open

Dumb shot

passed up an easy 2? wow. Elijah Johnson was ahead of his time

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Well, neutral fans (and the network suits) can't complain too much...they got a nail-biter down the stretch.

Hero ball

Tech thought they were defending us

get the italian guy the shot

OT

hottest team wins, unless someone suddenly gets sloppy with the ball, UVA.

Tech is great defensively but they lost their heads on that tying three. When the guard drove the lane the D collapsed on him leaving that guy wide open out there. Big mistake.

First OT since 2008. And how in the heck is that a rebounding foul on Culver?

Anybody but culver

Great spin

Culver needs to be the decoy at this point

Culver just layups

Did he walk?

WOW GUYS MATT MOONEY

hard headed irish kid, Mooney!

Officiating hasn't been awful, but the controversial ones seem to be tilted in Virginia's favor including that last one that I don't even know what happened

Beard saving the TO

OH PLEASE. he hit it out of Morreti's hand after he was already hacked.

BULL SHIT

These refs have become biased unfortunately ruining a great game.

Yeah that was bad

Didn't look like enough to overturn. No change in the direction of the ball spin.

Game was tight before the usual ACC favoritism

That should have been an and 1 on that layup.

Culver should have drove it

Never should have gone to ot

Wonder what that guy who placed that $1500 bet on Tech at 200-to-1 is thinking. He could have cashed it in for $150k. Instead, he held out for the whole $300,000.

Those folks in Vegas must be taking a real deep breath right now...

@approxinfinity Glad (for you that) your (second) team won!

I want to vomit a little bit how they won. Reality no longer matters. There is only desired outcome and engineering to get there.

Virginia put themselves in position to win. But there is no excuse for that call against Moretti.

@approxinfinity I didn’t watch any of it; I’m not mad...yet. Lol

Watching Virginia these last 3 games really make me wonder once again if it all ain't rigged. Each of those tight games had 2 or 3 questionable or flat out missed calls. All of those calls went Virginia's way, you just don't see that too often.

approxinfinity said:

I want to vomit a little bit how they won. Reality no longer matters. There is only desired outcome and engineering to get there.

Tech had every opportunity to win. One non foul call (or not call for that matter) does not a game make. Tech was down double digits twice.

It was UVA’s night. Hunter was unbelievable. They absolutely were the better team tonight.

@Kcmatt7 I know I know. But it's really uncomfortable when the refs overturn a call that they have no business overturning. That in my mind counts a whole lot more. Thats like taking a toy from a child and handing it to another child. It cuts deep.

There was also the foul on Culver when Hunter went over the back.

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I'm waiting for Brigham Young to win the national title some year, so they can play "One Shining Mormon"...

G'night everybody, and don't forget to tip your waiters !

BeddieKU23 said:

Who woulda thunk that recruiting services got him so wrong

Him and Zhaire Smith. Same class. 2 3 star lottery picks.

Anybody see one shining Zion?

So people really think these games are rigged ?? My god.

The replay of the Moretti ball out of bounds is a horrific use of replay in basketball. I knew this was eventually going to be a problem. Since the beginning of basketball officiating plays like that, which could be called a foul, isn't and instead, possession is awarded. They've done this to keep fouls lower and to not call a meaningless non-shooting foul and just call it a knocked out of bounds play. Now with last minute replay, a play like this is going to go to the team that fouled if the ball "slides" off the offensive player.

This is a can of worms that is opened, and I don't envy the refs having to deal with it.

Woodrow said:

So people really think these games are rigged ?? My god.

Isn’t it obvious? The refs forced the ball off of his hand and also forced Hunter to drill a 3 and also forced UVA to throw the ball away on purpose to go to overtime.

If people want to say replay screwed Tech and want replay removed, sure. I get it.

But the ball did go off of Morretti even if it was a foul. Hunter did drill an ice cold 3. And Tech had their chance. It was a great game.

Kcmatt7 said:

Woodrow said:

But the ball did go off of Morretti even if it was a foul.

Basketball has always been officiated this way, with possession awarded instead of a cheap foul call. Replay is horrible in basketball except for stepping on the line calls.

BigBad said:

Kcmatt7 said:

Woodrow said:

But the ball did go off of Morretti even if it was a foul.

Basketball has always been officiated this way, with possession awarded instead of a cheap foul call. Replay is horrible in basketball except for stepping on the line calls.

No arguments. I prefer it not exist either.