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Controversial call at end of Pittsburgh vs Notre Dame game

The foul was called on Zach Austin for Pitt???

geezuz what a horrible call to end a game and season on.

Another absolute game ruining call at the end when they should have swallowed the whistle and let it go to OT. It would've been better that way, and actually fair. THAT WAS NOT A FOUL going for that loose ball. especially going for that rebound, ats the buzzer is about to sound, you simply don't blow that whistle for something like that after an entire game has gone by.

I don't know, but so many games are skewed, and it was 54-55 in a real ACC snoozefest. It truthfully makes me wonder who's wagering what on games where this is happening. That is ANOTHER example of a game changing result direct by blown whistle at the end of a game.

horrible.

NCAA should be blasted for allowing this to go on
 

This was just a couple weeks ago. I'm sad I move back to Kentucky from living in Arizona, and see this... they didn't get jobbed once in the game. BUT TWICE. all right at the end. STUPID.

oops.

sorry. we were talking a crappy official ACC tournament call ? Damn, sad. My bad. It's an epidemic. Do they pass out masks before we watch this happen? Just keep it sterile on TV for safety sake.
 
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I feel like consistency is the real key in officiating. In a vacuum, that’s not the worst call I’ve seen. The Pitt player did have an arm in there that arguably impeded the putback attempt. The announcers reactions and comments about a “physical game” lead me to believe that similar contact or worse was allowed for most of the game though. That’s what’s unacceptable. You can’t call it loose all day, then tighten up in the closing seconds or vice versa.
 
I feel like consistency is the real key in officiating. In a vacuum, that’s not the worst call I’ve seen. The Pitt player did have an arm in there that arguably impeded the putback attempt. The announcers reactions and comments about a “physical game” lead me to believe that similar contact or worse was allowed for most of the game though. That’s what’s unacceptable. You can’t call it loose all day, then tighten up in the closing seconds or vice versa.
Consistency is my biggest gripe about officiating all the time- call it close, let them bang each other, I don't care but call it the same way the entire game for both teams
 
While agreeing that this doesn't look like a foul, can I just make an observation here? That it's kind of hilarious the difference in what constitutes a shooting foul on the perimeter (you grazed his pinky finger 5 seconds after the ball left his hand! you were near his landing zone!) vs when you get anywhere close to the basket (suck it up, buttercup!).

Like, can we agree that if this same contact happened at the perimeter, strangely we wouldn't be shocked by a foul call? And does that make any damn sense?

I also am not really a believer in calling things differently just because of the time. That's illogical.
 
a Dukie got screwed by refs?

sarcastic ross geller GIF
 
After watching SEC this year, I no longer know what a foul is. Same as walking and walking ball. Officiating is so inconsistent and arbitrary as to make slot of games unwatchable
 
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