07-11-2019, 10:32 AM
The ones that stand out to me are from the most painful loss I've ever watched - vs ODU in 1997. For a variety of reasons.
Kristin Folkl getting called and fouling out of the game for blocking balls from behind by refs who couldn't keep up with the play. On the last one, no part of her came within 3 inches of the offensive player except her hand on top of the ball, and she was still called for a foul. I was convinced it was purely because the male ref (Gator?) couldn't believe a woman could be that athletic.
The non-call on Clarisse Machanguana landing on top of Jamila Wideman after Jamila had faked her into the air on a three-point attempt with time running out and Stanford trailing.
More generally, the amount of body-checking that ODU was allowed to get away with in the second half, after Stanford, playing their normal game, had built up a first-half lead. The Monarchs turned the game with their clutching, holding, and mugging of a great offensive team, and the officials "didn't want to decide the outcome" - which of course decides the outcome, when you stop calling fouls that should be called.
That team should have won the national championship, and if they had, who knows how the succeeding twenty years would've gone - that was the period when UConn, having won their first, wasn't nearly as good. I can't help but think a different outcome might have flipped some recruits' decisions.
VG
Kristin Folkl getting called and fouling out of the game for blocking balls from behind by refs who couldn't keep up with the play. On the last one, no part of her came within 3 inches of the offensive player except her hand on top of the ball, and she was still called for a foul. I was convinced it was purely because the male ref (Gator?) couldn't believe a woman could be that athletic.
The non-call on Clarisse Machanguana landing on top of Jamila Wideman after Jamila had faked her into the air on a three-point attempt with time running out and Stanford trailing.
More generally, the amount of body-checking that ODU was allowed to get away with in the second half, after Stanford, playing their normal game, had built up a first-half lead. The Monarchs turned the game with their clutching, holding, and mugging of a great offensive team, and the officials "didn't want to decide the outcome" - which of course decides the outcome, when you stop calling fouls that should be called.
That team should have won the national championship, and if they had, who knows how the succeeding twenty years would've gone - that was the period when UConn, having won their first, wasn't nearly as good. I can't help but think a different outcome might have flipped some recruits' decisions.
VG