Miss St. shot 33% today; it is the officating.

oh jesus....you know, LSU can lose a game on their own, its not out of the realm of possibility.....like you said they shot 31%..they fricking deserved to lose

If we would have fed Tasmin on the low post all day and had the same FT disparity you would have a point, but we shot a lot of jump shots.

We certainly did get the majority of the calls today but anybody who watched this game saw who wanted it more today. State drove the basket again and again and again and drew alot of fouls. It seemed to me that LSU played flat and had a bad game. I understand that losing sux but I always have said LSU fans are the most knowledgeable and Classiest fans I know. Stansbury also said our gameplan today was to get to the ft line and ct down on our 3 pts b/c LSU defends the periemeter so good. Good luck to the Tigers in the Dance they are still the CREAM of the CROP.

Taz and Thorton went to the basket in the 2nd a LOT more than they shot jumpers. They never called Miss St. for reach in and touch fouls or contact on block attempts. LSU on the other hand... Thornton only got to the line when he was mugged.

I don't think its a conspiracy or anything, the officials just got way too swept up in the emotion Miss St's played with. Very unprofessional.

The only consolation is that LSU didn't earn the game. If LSU would have played better and lost like this, it would have been even worse.

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- I guess you missed the many times we did go into the paint and got hacked or how Varnaudo (spelling??) was getting away with dropping his shoulder and drive into people and hooking all day long. I normally don't say that a game was determined by officiating, but when a team scores 22 points (or whatever it was) off of free throws and that is 15 more points than the other team made off of free throws...something is wrong.

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I agree that Varnado got away with a lot when he was on offense; the hooking in particular should have been called, but I thought most of his blocked shots were clean.

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You are exactly right. Tigercat is a sore loser. Good luck tomorrow.

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Feel free to actually debate instead of name calling.

For what its worth, I think Miss St was the better team by a hair today. (And not by the 10 points that the officiating helped facilitate.)

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I agree that Varnado got away with a lot when he was on offense; the hooking in particular should have been called, but I thought most of his blocked shots were clean.

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I can agree with the blocks, but there were a couple times when our guys got hacked badly (a Thornton drive comes to mind) and there was no call. They even showed one as a replay of a "good block" and it was obvious that the state guy got nothing but both of Thorntons arms and no ball.

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you know, LSU can lose a game on their own, its not out of the realm of possibility

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Why is it out of the realm of possibility that LSU could lose a game because the refs made bad calls that screwed us enough to make the difference?

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like you said they shot 31%..they fricking deserved to lose

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So any team that shoots 31% deserves to lose? So what does that say about every team that lost to a team that shot 31%? Were they all screwed by officials since their opponent "deserved to lose" but didn't?

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For all those that think officiating didn't play a role today.. That is only 2% better than us, they committed one less turnover as well. We outrebounded them by 1 and outshot them from 3 point range.

If you think officiating wasn't the biggest reason why we lost, especially by 10, you weren't paying attention.

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Thank you. I can't believe people say State wanted it more. Did they watch the game? LSU didn't look great, but neither did State. A 10 point win with 25 more points off of free throws. Come on.

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This topic is spot on. Anyone that saw that game that knows just a little basketball knows where it was lost. They and particularly Varnado were allowed to maul us in the paint. I know I'm crying, but I have a right too in this case! One of the most lopsided bit of officiating I have seen in my 65 years.

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