[BillBradley]

Go Duke.  Be great to see one of the greatest college coaches of all-time go out on top.  Plus, I know how muck Coach K and the Dookies are loved on this board……

Was pulling for Gonzaga.  But that ship sailed. My impression is they lacked depth.  And Holmgrens foul trouble hurt.  I sure wish they’d go to 6 fouls.

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Talk about awful officiating...The refs in the Gonzaga-Arkansas game were terrible. One play an Arkansas guard dribbled baseline and around half his foot was out of bounds and no ref called it. Arkansas got a 3 on that possession. There were numerous phantom calls and just plain missed calls. They kept bringing in the officiating expert Gene Steratore and he kept reluctantly saying things like "yeah that probably shouldn't have been called" and "surprised they missed that". It was embarrassingly bad.

Basketball is incredibly hard to ref.  All you can ask for is consistentcy.  Calls are gonna be missed.

Having said that, college hoops is “over officiated” way too many tricky tack fouls.  Way too many charging calls that should be blocks or non-calls. And the 5 fouls disqualification rule should be changed.

Agree entirely. The biggest issue, IMO, is that "consistency" and "over officiated" are in direct conflict with one another. Once you start calling ticky tack stuff, you need to call all of it. When you arbitrarily call some of it, by definition it's not consistent. The ones that get me the most are:
- The three point shooter flop. Whenever someone is defended closely on a 3 pointer, the shooter falls down after they release the ball. It's become automatic these days for the shooters to go hunting for free throws. And the refs do reward the flop with fouls calls every so often, so why would the shooters stop falling down if they are being rewarded? The common explanation is "we need to protect the shooter and give him/her a place to land." I say B.S. Get up in the shooter's face but don't make contact. That's called good defense in my book. If every once in awhile someone lands on a foot and twists an ankle then so be it. Post players are constantly jumping in traffic and coming down with feet all around them and yes, every once in awhile someone twists an ankle. But no one is deliberately trying to hurt anyone, so just let it go.
- A guard is dribbling and when they get bumped or are closely guarded they thrust their head back. Please - the game is turning into international soccer where players writhe in pain every time they get tackled. Just don't call it! Once it's not called then players will stop doing it and we won't need this stupid "flop warning". The controversy at the end of the Arizona-TCU game on the play at half court is a perfect example. In my mind that's a no-call. But so were the 5 others during the game, so if you called them then how do you not call that one? 

A good % of this stuff is solved if they stop over-officiating as you suggest.

[BillBradley]

Go Duke.  Be great to see one of the greatest college coaches of all-time go out on top.  Plus, I know how muck Coach K and the Dookies are loved on this board……

Was pulling for Gonzaga.  But that ship sailed. My impression is they lacked depth.  And Holmgrens foul trouble hurt.  I sure wish they’d go to 6 fouls.

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Talk about awful officiating...The refs in the Gonzaga-Arkansas game were terrible. One play an Arkansas guard dribbled baseline and around half his foot was out of bounds and no ref called it. Arkansas got a 3 on that possession. There were numerous phantom calls and just plain missed calls. They kept bringing in the officiating expert Gene Steratore and he kept reluctantly saying things like "yeah that probably shouldn't have been called" and "surprised they missed that". It was embarrassingly bad.

Basketball is incredibly hard to ref.  All you can ask for is consistentcy.  Calls are gonna be missed.

Having said that, college hoops is “over officiated” way too many tricky tack fouls.  Way too many charging calls that should be blocks or non-calls. And the 5 fouls disqualification rule should be changed.

Agree entirely. The biggest issue, IMO, is that "consistency" and "over officiated" are in direct conflict with one another. Once you start calling ticky tack stuff, you need to call all of it. When you arbitrarily call some of it, by definition it's not consistent. The ones that get me the most are:
- The three point shooter flop. Whenever someone is defended closely on a 3 pointer, the shooter falls down after they release the ball. It's become automatic these days for the shooters to go hunting for free throws. And the refs do reward the flop with fouls calls every so often, so why would the shooters stop falling down if they are being rewarded? The common explanation is "we need to protect the shooter and give him/her a place to land." I say B.S. Get up in the shooter's face but don't make contact. That's called good defense in my book. If every once in awhile someone lands on a foot and twists an ankle then so be it. Post players are constantly jumping in traffic and coming down with feet all around them and yes, every once in awhile someone twists an ankle. But no one is deliberately trying to hurt anyone, so just let it go.
- A guard is dribbling and when they get bumped or are closely guarded they thrust their head back. Please - the game is turning into international soccer where players writhe in pain every time they get tackled. Just don't call it! Once it's not called then players will stop doing it and we won't need this stupid "flop warning". The controversy at the end of the Arizona-TCU game on the play at half court is a perfect example. In my mind that's a no-call. But so were the 5 others during the game, so if you called them then how do you not call that one? 

A good % of this stuff is solved if they stop over-officiating as you suggest.