(03-02-2025, 09:04 AM)Hurlburt88 Wrote: I was not able to watch . . . is Young OK? Box score indicated he started but only played 3 minutes
I was at the game. He twisted his ankle (it looked like) and limped off. Stayed on the bench for the rest of the game. Hopefully nothing too serious but we'll see.
To the other comments, yeah, the refereeing in this game was weird. Being at the game I didn't get the benefit of replays or TV commentary, but it seemed like our guys got called for touch foul after touch foul but none of theirs were. Not that they weren't necessarily fouls, but just a different standard of judgment. And Raynaud's two free throws were in the first 2 minutes so we went 38 minutes without ever going to the line. That must be some kind of record.
There was one funny thing that probably didn't get picked up on camera. Blakes' technical had seemed like a silly whistle from an overly-sensitive ref. A friend watching on TV texted that it looked to be based on Blakes' reaction to the foul, which in person looked like basically nothing. Much later in the game, a SMU player reacted to a call right in front of Blakes, who was standing on the sideline waiting to check in, and Blakes pointed at the player and looked at the ref with an eye-rolling expression that perfectly conveyed "umm, hello? That's exactly what I got T'd for? No? Nothing?" I laughed in the moment.
