re: AWFUL job by the officials tonight

While I acknowledge basketball officiating is a very tough job, I do agree that for a national championship game, it was very poorly called, probably one of the worst officiated games ever for an NCAA title game. Only four fouls on both teams combined in the first hall were called. So the refs certainly swallowed their whistles a lot in that half. They then went crazy in the second half, calling a lot of touch fouls that in the first half, would have been ignored.

For years, I have understood that coaches especially want officials to BE CONSISTENT--meaning, call it both ways on both ends of the court.

In the end, the call that was the worst by far and that officials at that level should not miss, was the obvious goal tending by Florida late in the first half. Houston should have had a 5 point halftime lead, not 3. And those two extra points would have crucial. Can Florida recover from a 14-point deficit in the second half? Perhaps, but we'll never know. Their winning margin was 2 points and that missed goal tend cost Houston two points they deserved.

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In the end, the call that was the worst by far and that officials at that level should not miss, was the obvious goal tending by Florida late in the first half. Houston should have had a 5 point halftime lead, not 3. And those two extra points would have crucial. Can Florida recover from a 14-point deficit in the second half? Perhaps, but we'll never know. Their winning margin was 2 points and that missed goal tend cost Houston two points they deserved.

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I thought it was odd they didn't review that play (or maybe they did and the broadcast crew didn't tell the audience). In a sport where the number of reviews have become annoyingly absurd, I figured they would at least take a look at that non-call during a break.

The officiating was just really, really bad all the way around

It's 10:08 and refs are still stupid.