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WSU beats UCLA 66-65.

Just like in the UA-ASU game, there was a 4-pt swing involving a technical. Cori Close got a technical when UCLA was leading 56-52. WSU made the two FT plus two more in the ensuing play to tie up the game 56-56.
Wild ending: UCLA was ahead 65-63 and had the ball with 20 sec left, but Osbourne committed a turnover. In the ensuing WSU possession, Krystal L-W grabbed a rebound close in, made the shot while being fouled, and made the FT with 1.7 seconds left. UCLA advanced the ball with a TO, but threw the ball away on the inbounds play.
Could be the end of any chances by UCLA for the NCAAs.

I watched the end of the game and there was a game-overturning, egregious bad call by Kyle Bacon on the end line with 7 seconds left in favor of WSU, leading to the tying & go-ahead points.  Had it been correctly called (ie, a no-call), UCLA was up 2 with the ball and 7 seconds left.   Bacon called an out-of-bounds by the foot of the UCLA player. He emphatically pointed at her foot as though he was absolutely sure of his call.  The video shows her foot at least 2" away from the end line.

I had to wonder where that call came from.  I know what Adia Barnes would say.  I think it was a ref who was itching to make some sort of call, showing he was part of the game.  Instead of calling what his eyes saw, he called what he wanted to see.

Maybe it isn't a coincidence: Kyle Bacon was the ref on the end line that failed to notice the player's foot on the end line when rebounding the ball to put up a shot carrying Oregon over Arizona in overtime.

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WSU beats UCLA 66-65.

Just like in the UA-ASU game, there was a 4-pt swing involving a technical. Cori Close got a technical when UCLA was leading 56-52. WSU made the two FT plus two more in the ensuing play to tie up the game 56-56.
Wild ending: UCLA was ahead 65-63 and had the ball with 20 sec left, but Osbourne committed a turnover. In the ensuing WSU possession, Krystal L-W grabbed a rebound close in, made the shot while being fouled, and made the FT with 1.7 seconds left. UCLA advanced the ball with a TO, but threw the ball away on the inbounds play.
Could be the end of any chances by UCLA for the NCAAs.

I watched the end of the game and there was a game-overturning, egregious bad call by Kyle Bacon on the end line with 7 seconds left in favor of WSU, leading to the tying & go-ahead points.  Had it been correctly called (ie, a no-call), UCLA was up 2 with the ball and 7 seconds left.   Bacon called an out-of-bounds by the foot of the UCLA player. He emphatically pointed at her foot as though he was absolutely sure of his call.  The video shows her foot at least 2" away from the end line.

I had to wonder where that call came from.  I know what Adia Barnes would say.  I think it was a ref who was itching to make some sort of call, showing he was part of the game.  Instead of calling what his eyes saw, he called what he wanted to see.

Maybe it isn't a coincidence: Kyle Bacon was the ref on the end line that failed to notice the player's foot on the end line when rebounding the ball to put up a shot carrying Oregon over Arizona in overtime.