Massachusetts 120-118 Fordham (Jan 15, 2025) Game Stats - ESPN
Complete team stats and game leaders for the Massachusetts Minutemen vs. Fordham Rams NCAAM game from January 15, 2025 on ESPN.
UMass vs Fordham: 79 fouls, 122 FTA, 10 players fouled out
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Dang and we thought we had it bad.
Over 60 threes shot. No way there should be that many free throws.
With a ton of calls many college basketball games are totally unwatchable now.
that’s the way they are coached.
That’s just embarrassing for the officials involved. I mean that is flat out lunacy. That is not basketball. Somebody has got to get this sh*% under control.
Going to the monitor every 5 minutes in a game is going to ruin March Madness. Games are lasting almost 3 hours nowadays.
That's inexcusable and refs calling 800 fouls a game isn't watchable.
That's inexcusable and refs calling 800 fouls a game isn't watchable.
That doesn’t seem possible and would be the worst game to watch in history.
What are you talking about? Mike Eades and Greg Sankey were probably on the phone trying to get them to the SEC.
So what should they do?? Allow all the hacking , pushing and illegal screens?? I’m with the other poster. Until coaches are forced to stop teaching this stuff, it’s gonna continue.
Many teams are coached to foul 50 times a game.
Duke players are taught to push the defender away before every shot. All 5 starters do it so it’s coached.
I would rather see officials not allow it and have rugby instead of basketball.
The Louisville title that was taken away was won like this. That team fouled 8-10 times every possession. The officials allowed them to hack their way to a title because the press was entertaining to watch.
The truth is basketball is a contact sport. The NBA decided that they wanted to get rid of the thugish gameplay and be more European so they invented this free flow gameplay crap. What it did was push certain types of player out of the game and do away with defense. Now the NBA is damned near unwatchable because it is so boring.
What to do is quite the conundrum. Refs can start by not being selective in making calls so that it benefits one team over the other.
Second, they can be consistent in how they call things from game to game and year to year. That sets a solid precedent and stops some of the sketchy teaching going on.
Third, stop favoring the offense. Stop with the shot flopping. Call illegal screens. I would like to see walks called again, as well as over the back.
There is no easy fix. Those players that the NBA pushed out play in college level ball. Either they go and play football or the rules are relaxed. Either way just call things even.
Refs were like:
You have to cringe every time a ref does the offensive foul shuffle when calling a charge.
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