NCAA screw job

[jackmd]

The seed, the location, the officiating all extremely biased against SDSU. Our women deserved better and I'll stand up and say it with pride. Not sure how it looked on TV or sounded on the radio we got homered in the state of Texas.

Nothing but respect for our program. I hope the NCAA recognizes that. Very disappointed right now.

[leeshajo]

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The seed, the location, the officiating all extremely biased against SDSU. Our women deserved better and I'll stand up and say it with pride. Not sure how it looked on TV or sounded on the radio we got homered in the state of Texas.

Nothing but respect for our program. I hope the NCAA recognizes that. Very disappointed right now.

wait until you hear how Trey bungleitallup wrapped up the game... I was nice and calm, sad, upset, sad... that wrap-up PISSED ME OFF...

[jackrabbit1220]

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How about a #1 seed in Duke having to play a #9 seed in Michigan State on Michigan State's home court? Now that's poor planning by the selection committee. Thanks for a great year ladies!! You had my 2 year old daughter leading GO JACKS cheers!!

Jackrabbit for life!

[jackmd]

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Maybe the mods will move this to smack but its really not. I'm just telling it the way I saw it, granted through yellow and blue tinted glasses. Many Tech fans at the game and they were apologetic. The think I heard from most of them was "its tough to beat a team with 8 players". I'm not whining, I cheered our team on the whole time never giving into my temptation to holler at the refs (okay maybe a little bit).

We still missed free throws and they still made shots. I don't think the better team won tonight.

[TeaJackrabbit]

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You beat me to it.

Unreal. Couldn't even believe the officiating I just watched.

I texted a few friends after the game and it read the same..."first the seed, then the location, then the refs." The womens NCAA is clearly about the money.

I have NEVER blamed a game on officiating and I have never accused a crew of having an agenda, but after witnessing what the NCAA Women's tourney is all about I truly believe this was a fix. So many calls that were questionable at best. It's a shame.

[TeaJackrabbit]

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I watch a ton of college hoops. For the announcers to speak on the officials and how bad they are, and for them to do this with 19:30 to go in the game let's you know it was a horrible job by the stripes.

If the officials let them play, even in the first half, this game is a double-digit SDSU win. The early calls on SDSU just killed them.

Thanks NCAA...how many tournies do we have to make before you play fair?

[zooropa]

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Those were bad officials and they took away SDSU's momentum....

However, them's the breaks. I don't want to say that they cost SDSU the win, because I think, down the stretch in the second half, they put the whistles away....

But I'm fine with the results.... I'm sure AJ and the girls knew, going in, that they weren't going to get the benefit of the doubt and they still played an -outstanding- game. It came down to a single play and a bit of missed defense and to say that about a game against the Big 12 champs in the first trip to the tournament...

[jackdaniel]

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I was listening to the game on the radio, we were up by double digits, had to do something at work, went back to radio right before the half & they were with in 2. The anouncers all the time saying how cold Baylor was shooting, but uncharacteristicly shooting a high percentage of thier foul shots.
I thought, why are we fouling them if they can't make anything anyway.
Didn't know the officiating was that bad, being on the radio.
Now it makes sense.
I don't want to remain negative about the game, just want to thank the women of SDSU for making the whole State proud!It was a fun journey you took us all on.Here's looking forward to a great year next year,again , thanks team& especially thank you seniors, you will all be missed.

[Cowbell]

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Odd isn't it? A player goes 0-10 shooting and makes some bad passes and we say, "He/she had a bad game." A coach doesn't make an adjustment, call a timely timeout or whatever, and we say, "The coach blew it." Those are acceptable.

But, when refs clearly dictate the outcome of a game and we say something negative about them it's called "whinning."

[WYOBISONMAN]

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I also thought the ESPN announcers were horribly biased against the Jacks. I damn near turned the sound off last night. This is a case of bias against the underdogs. I saw it in the mens tournament in Minny too. The officiating in the Dayton/KU game was simply horrid. Fouls would be called on Dayton and KU (Aldrich in particular) got by with murder under the bucket. I am still not sure what to make of it.....bias or incompetence on the part of the officials.

Anyway.....you gotta be proud of those Jack women. They have done a heck of a job!

[CatchEmAll]

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The sad reality is that for anyone who didn't watch the game and only saw highlights, read the post game write-ups or looked at the box score they would assume that Baylor overcame a big deficit and earned a hard fought victory. In looking just at the box score that's an easy assumption. The real story will never be told in the media, unless Fran Fraschilla comes out in defense of SDSU's effort. Those of us that watched know how the first half played out. Baylor happened to be the better team for the final 20 minutes, but the first 20 belonged to the stripes. As someone else mentioned, when the color crew calls out the officials at the 19:30 mark of the second half then you know there's a problem. Sucks now that we have to wait 365 days to see the women's team pull of the win they should have had last night.

[CatchEmAll]

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I also thought the ESPN announcers were horribly biased against the Jacks.

Really?? I for one thought just the opposite (until the game was over and they had to turn their attention to the winning team - Baylor, not the officials). I felt as if they complimented SDSU and AJ throughout the game for their abilities and level of play. Maybe there was a different crew doing the ESPN 360 game that I was watching.

[leeshajo]

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Those announcers were VERY favorable of SDSU... they were the first to start out the BS call. Only at the end did they start even talking about Baylor OTHER than to make digs at the officiating and Mulkey's Drama class...

I find it very telling that no one is writting up a cover story of how the game played from beginning to end... not one person not affiliated with either team is writting a game summary that starts at the beginning and covers how the game played out... I havent seen one reporter with the guts to stand up and say... BS on the refs for taking the momentum out of the game....

I doubt ANYTHING will ever be done about the officiating at this game... but I have to move on because I want to focus on the AMAZING things this jackrabbit team accomplished this season. I am not going to let three people in stripes take my pride in this season and make it focus on them instead

[CatchEmAll]

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Those announcers were VERY favorable of SDSU... they were the first to start out the BS call. Only at the end did they start even talking about Baylor OTHER than to make digs at the officiating and Mulkey's Drama class...

Good. Glad I'm not the only one who thought so. I was beginning to wonder if I had listened to the same game or if I made up the play by play in my head.

[Nidaros]

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I thought the ESPN guys gave us as much credit as they can, and their job obviously at the end is to promote the winner, which just happen to be Baylor. This seems to happen all the time. If we are the free competivtive society that embraces capalistic economics, we dare not talk losers over winners. Because SDSU did not win, we should not expect more in terms of publicity.