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Have my eyes failed me?  The box score at GoStanford says the officials were Kelly Broomfield, Lorena Ahumada,  Charles Gonzalez.  But I would have sworn the head official was Kyle Bacon.   I didn't know the other two officials, but they need to study the rule book more. Two calls that I believe were miscalled (by the other 2 refs, but not overruled by Bacon) as I saw the plays:  

• A call of a kicked ball, where the ball hit the heel of a player running down court.  The trouble is that the rule book says that the contact by the foot or leg has to be intentional.
  
• A call of a held ball where a CP player attempted to shoot close to the basket but got the ball caught in the torso of a Stanford player who had her hands up.  The shooter left her feet and came back to the ground.  Sorry, but the rule that would make that a held ball is if the defender has her hand on the ball.  It should have been called a travel.
  

I don't know about the live stream but the KZSU announcers totally missed it.  There was an early stoppage because Brink got an (uncalled) elbow to the head after a foul shot (IIRC).  I didn't see it live, but saw Brink's reaction.  We did get a brief view of it on the big screen.  My opinion is that it should have been called a foul (illegal contact by non-swinging elbow) but the review can not cause an ordinary foul to be called.  It was proper to review it and to find Brink did not fake it.

There are some things Brink does that I think will get her in trouble someday. At least once tonight, I felt she swung her arms hard (under CP's goal after getting a rebound) when there were players around her.  Even without contact, that can be called an intentional foul.  She also lets her body react to pushes and fouls more than other players.  That puts her at risk of an official deciding that she's accentuating the contact. If the official judges that the contact was not illegal, he may call her for faking a foul.
"Faking being fouled occurs when a player simulates being fouled or
makes theatrical or exaggerated movements when there is no illegal contact by
committing acts such as, but not limited to, overtly embellishing the impact of
incidental contact on block/charge plays or attempted tries for goal (flopping),
using a "head bob" to simulate illegal contact, or using any other tactics in order
to create an opinion of being fouled and therefore gaining an advantage."

(I listened to KZSU most of the game (I have noise-cancelling earplugs that I would use anyway just to reduce the noise in Maples).  For student announcers, they did a decent job (far better than the KZSU WVB or WSoc announcers).  Congrats.  I send a little money to KZSU for their sports coverage every year.)

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Have my eyes failed me?  The box score at GoStanford says the officials were Kelly Broomfield, Lorena Ahumada,  Charles Gonzalez.  But I would have sworn the head official was Kyle Bacon.   I didn't know the other two officials, but they need to study the rule book more. Two calls that I believe were miscalled (by the other 2 refs, but not overruled by Bacon) as I saw the plays:  

• A call of a kicked ball, where the ball hit the heel of a player running down court.  The trouble is that the rule book says that the contact by the foot or leg has to be intentional.
  
• A call of a held ball where a CP player attempted to shoot close to the basket but got the ball caught in the torso of a Stanford player who had her hands up.  The shooter left her feet and came back to the ground.  Sorry, but the rule that would make that a held ball is if the defender has her hand on the ball.  It should have been called a travel.
  

I don't know about the live stream but the KZSU announcers totally missed it.  There was an early stoppage because Brink got an (uncalled) elbow to the head after a foul shot (IIRC).  I didn't see it live, but saw Brink's reaction.  We did get a brief view of it on the big screen.  My opinion is that it should have been called a foul (illegal contact by non-swinging elbow) but the review can not cause an ordinary foul to be called.  It was proper to review it and to find Brink did not fake it.

There are some things Brink does that I think will get her in trouble someday. At least once tonight, I felt she swung her arms hard (under CP's goal after getting a rebound) when there were players around her.  Even without contact, that can be called an intentional foul.  She also lets her body react to pushes and fouls more than other players.  That puts her at risk of an official deciding that she's accentuating the contact. If the official judges that the contact was not illegal, he may call her for faking a foul.
"Faking being fouled occurs when a player simulates being fouled or
makes theatrical or exaggerated movements when there is no illegal contact by
committing acts such as, but not limited to, overtly embellishing the impact of
incidental contact on block/charge plays or attempted tries for goal (flopping),
using a "head bob" to simulate illegal contact, or using any other tactics in order
to create an opinion of being fouled and therefore gaining an advantage."

(I listened to KZSU most of the game (I have noise-cancelling earplugs that I would use anyway just to reduce the noise in Maples).  For student announcers, they did a decent job (far better than the KZSU WVB or WSoc announcers).  Congrats.  I send a little money to KZSU for their sports coverage every year.)