How many titles have the zebras stole from Kentucky?

[HerrosHeroes]

Ill start by saying Higgins in 2011 singlehandedly kept UK from beating UCONN in the semis with his preposterous calls.

Thats one title.

Your turn.

Oh and this should have been addressed a loooong time ago because we are cheated unmercifully yr in and yr out by officials.

Some one honestly should take the time to write a book with links to video proof!

We dont even get calls at home!

If its a close game, especially in the tournament we are going to lose due to this garbage.

Games are swayed more in college basketball by crooked officiating than in any other sport in the world.

Unless we are slaughtering teams we will probably not win another championship because of these a-holes that are bent on F’in UK.

 

[KentuckyCat420]

2 instances will always stick out to me.

UK/UNC in the Elite 8 2016/2017.

UK/Wisconsin in the Final 4 2014/2015.

Higgins blatantly prevented UK from beating UNC and the missed shot clock violation against Wisconsin was not only close to 2 seconds late but completely changed the momentum of the final minutes.

 

[Cal-4-Three]

That 2017 game was just pure criminal. The others were four or five calls that were atrocious. That 2017 game was flat out fixed. It was ridiculous.

 

[UKWildcats1987]

I'll go with 1997 when Arizona shot 41 free throws to UKs 17.

I picked this year because it was the actual title game.

There is no way 2011 or 2015 or 2017 were sure titles if we win the games referenced with Calipari coaching. I'd say 2011 would have won as Knight followed up each crappy shooting game with a good one.

Vegas, officials and Duke in 2015? Idk guys.

2017 would have had to beat a good Oregon and good Gonzaga team.

 

[drew_ukfan]

More than we think. Sports make tremendous amounts of money. When tremendous amounts of money are at stake, tampering is likely

 

[BlueBomb]

i don't think referees cost us any title. And ref-complainers crack me up.

 

[Wildcat Sheli]

1992 Duke (Tim Higgins)
1997 Arizona (Tim Higgins)
2010 WVU (Luckie)
2011 UConn (J Higgins)
2015 Wisconsin (J Higgins)
2017 UNCheats (J Higgins)

I chronicled J Higgins’ missed calls here and Luckie’s “craft” of officiating here.

 

[Cowtown Cat]

1992 Duke (Tim Higgins)
1997 Arizona (Tim Higgins)
2010 WVU (Luckie)
2011 UConn (J Higgins)
2015 Wisconsin (J Higgins)
2017 UNCheats (J Higgins)

I chronicled J Higgins’ missed calls here and Luckie’s “craft” of officiating here.

This! That 1992 game with duke was absolutely egregious! Was nearly as bad as 2017. Cannot believe it isn’t mentioned more often. Not sure we would’ve won the title, but we were railroaded against duke.

Anyway, 1993, 1997, 2011, 2015 and 2017. Also, 2014 and 2019 were terrible as well.

 

[ruppcat]

Ill start by saying Higgins in 2011 singlehandedly kept UK from beating UCONN in the semis with his preposterous calls.

Thats one title.

Your turn.

Oh and this should have been addressed a loooong time ago because we are cheated unmercifully yr in and yr out by officials.

Some one honestly should take the time to write a book with links to video proof!

We dont even get calls at home!

If its a close game, especially in the tournament we are going to lose due to this garbage.

Games are swayed more in college basketball by crooked officiating than in any other sport in the world.

Unless we are slaughtering teams we will probably not win another championship because of these a-holes that are bent on F’in UK.

UK v ucla 1975.

 

[bowfreak]

Without Rafters, I think the OP would just sit in a room in the fetal position babbling to himself. With Rafters he just babbles to the whole board. I can only imagine the entertainment rival fans get from moronic threads like this.

 

[JimboBBN]

We were winning the title if we got past UNC in 2017. We probably beat Duke in 2015, too. The shot clock was the biggest of all missed calls just due to it being in the final four. But there were many more awful calls in the UNC game.

 

[Catapult]

While I agree with a lot of these (especially Rooferee), I think key injuries have cost us more than the refs. 66, 70, 83-84, 93 and 97 were all very good chances for titles if we had been totally healthy.

 

[catman15]

The UNC game was by far the worst I've seen and nobody was stopping fox/monk/bam that year without a load of help. I'm pretty sure i had 2 fouls by half just wearing my UK gear on my couch

 

[OmahaCats]

i don't think referees cost us any title. And ref-complainers crack me up.

I know. It’s so dumb

 

[DCFseattle]

'bout a hunnerd

 

[ukcatz12]

So what I’ve learned from this thread is every time UK has a good team and doesn’t win the title it’s the refs’ fault.

 

[Blueaz]

That 2017 game was just pure criminal. The others were four or five calls that were atrocious. That 2017 game was flat out fixed. It was ridiculous.

This.

 

[nickhorvathsuxazz]

Ill start by saying Higgins in 2011 singlehandedly kept UK from beating UCONN in the semis with his preposterous calls.

Thats one title.

Your turn.

Oh and this should have been addressed a loooong time ago because we are cheated unmercifully yr in and yr out by officials.

Some one honestly should take the time to write a book with links to video proof!

We dont even get calls at home!

If its a close game, especially in the tournament we are going to lose due to this garbage.

Games are swayed more in college basketball by crooked officiating than in any other sport in the world.

Unless we are slaughtering teams we will probably not win another championship because of these a-holes that are bent on F’in UK.

My list will only include final 4 teams, and my level of confidence that we'd have won a title w/ an even whistle. (If I went back a round, I'd argue for '92, '95 and '17.)
75 (absolute certainty), 93 (60%), 11 (75%), 14 (95%). So, probably 4 extra titles w/ decent officiating.

 

[TheBlueMist]

Zero. Unless you have proof of tampering, questionable officiating is just part of the game.

 

[ace on the river]

I know. It’s so dumb

Like I said yesterday, every announcer and every commentator and referee hates us

 

[ruppcat]

So what I’ve learned from this thread is every time UK has a good team and doesn’t win the title it’s the refs’ fault.

No....not everytime.

95 is a good example. Team went cold against the cheats....though there was a foul or two that could have changed things.

84 is another. UK couldn't handle the press and shot an atrocious 3/33 in the second half. Should have been able to handle georgetown and then Houston.

 

[AGEE11]

Just in the last decade:
15 Shot Clock
17 Rooferee
19 9+ minutes of fouling immunity (maybe not a title, but a final 4)

 

[WildcatfaninOhio]

UK has made 60 NCAA tournament appearances.

They won 8 of them.

The refs stole the other 52 from them.

 

[Runnin'Ramel]

The Wisconsin loss felt like a screwjob from the opening minutes. That blatant shot clock violation was criminal. But UK also shit their pants down the stretch, no denying that.

The UConn loss in Dallas the year before felt like a screwjob. The charge on Poythress that should have been an and-one was criminal. But Harrison lost his shooting touch and Randle was a bit off.

I was at both, and I've never been so angry at a sporting event as I was at those two games.

 

[the stat man]

2 instances will always stick out to me.

UK/UNC in the Elite 8 2016/2017.

UK/Wisconsin in the Final 4 2014/2015.

Higgins blatantly prevented UK from beating UNC and the missed shot clock violation against Wisconsin was not only close to 2 seconds late but completely changed the momentum of the final minutes.

Those two are with out a doubt on purpose

 

[nickhorvathsuxazz]

No....not everytime.

95 is a good example. Team went cold against the cheats....though there was a foul or two that could have changed things.

84 is another. UK couldn't handle the press and shot an atrocious 3/33 in the second half. Should have been able to handle georgetown and then Houston.

95's not the best example; that game's outcome was heavily influenced by referee decision. Rasheed Wallace probably should've been ejected, but refs decided to issue double techs, but to sweeten the deal in unc's favor, walter mccarty (who was off to a great start) was hit w/ the T, putting him in foul trouble and limiting his minutes, even though it was andre riddick who was in the brush-up and had rasheed by the throat. Or that's the way I remember that game; that might be one that i revisit.

 

[Emarc]

Our missed free throws might have cost us more

 

[ruppcat]

95's not the best example; that game's outcome was heavily influenced by referee decision. Rasheed Wallace probably should've been ejected, but refs decided to issue double techs, but to sweeten the deal in unc's favor, walter mccarty (who was off to a great start) was hit w/ the T, putting him in foul trouble and limiting his minutes, even though it was andre riddick who was in the brush-up and had rasheed by the throat. Or that's the way I remember that game; that might be one that i revisit.

Yep...remember the fight.

But also remember UK couldn't throw it in the ocean that night.
7/36 from 3
21/75 fga

 

[Runnin'Ramel]

95's not the best example; that game's outcome was heavily influenced by referee decision. Rasheed Wallace probably should've been ejected, but refs decided to issue double techs, but to sweeten the deal in unc's favor, walter mccarty (who was off to a great start) was hit w/ the T, putting him in foul trouble and limiting his minutes, even though it was andre riddick who was in the brush-up and had rasheed by the throat. Or that's the way I remember that game; that might be one that i revisit.

The T on McCarty was pathetic. If that happened today, Wallace and Riddick get tossed, and McCarty doesn't get benched.

 

[Runnin'Ramel]

Our missed free throws might have cost us more

Definitely lost the UConn semi-final in Houston, even with all the bad shooting and Knight being awful.

Definitely lost the K-State sweet 16 game when Loyola was waiting in the next round. Every time I watch PJ Washington at the line in the NBA, I think of that performance from him .... so bad.

Free throws didn't exactly help UK against St. Peter's, either. Wheeler airballing one was an all-timer, and just put a bow on the whole "Cal's teams choke at the line in the tourney" narrative/reality.

 

[Wildcats1st]

Unless it was a blatant miss in a final game they didn’t cost us anything but maybe a win even that is questionable. You see if you win the ff game you have to win the title game too. So no they didn’t cost us titles. A shot at a title? I can get with some of that but 2015 we shouldn’t have even been in a situation for refs to make an impact.

 

[UKBB4Ever]

i don't think referees cost us any title. And ref-complainers crack me up.

I’m with you on this. Bad calls every game both ways.

With one exception. We were flat out cheated in ‘17 against UNC. And not incompetence. It was intentional.

I’ll never believe differently.

I was at that game and even the UNC people felt they were getting calls.

I was at the ‘15 game too. The shot clock not called was a terrible call.

But it was just one of many. That didn’t cost us the game. We should have beaten the brakes off them with no officials.

 

[UK96GOAT]

I'll go with 1997 when Arizona shot 41 free throws to UKs 17.

I picked this year because it was the actual title game.

There is no way 2011 or 2015 or 2017 were sure titles if we win the games referenced with Calipari coaching. I'd say 2011 would have won as Knight followed up each crappy shooting game with a good one.

Vegas, officials and Duke in 2015? Idk guys.

2017 would have had to beat a good Oregon and good Gonzaga team.

Yep, Arizona made 0 FGs in overtime and still won. All of their points were free throws in the OT.