But the refereeing in the Gonzaga NU game was awful. All the news was on the missed goaltend and ensuing tech on Collins, but the officiating was bad the whole game.
Not sure how it happened, but official Jeff Clark was allowed to referee consecutive NCAAT games involving Gonzaga this season(3/16 vs. S. Dakota St. and 3/18 vs. Northwestern). The NCAAT is a multi-billion dollar event, so funding shouldn't be an issue. There weren't blizzard conditions in Salt Lake City from 3/16-18 preventing different referees from reaching the arena. Usually the officiating crew has at least one replacement ref on site for injury/illness situations. I'm not saying this referee's presence aided Gonzaga in any way/shape/form, although the non-goal tending call and subsequent T on Coach Collins in the Gonzaga-Northwestern game were notable events. I wouldn't think this situation(same referee officiates consective games of the same team)would generally be allowed even in high school competition. Any thoughts? Thanks!
http://natstat.com/mbb/officials/jeff-clark
But the refereeing in the Gonzaga NU game was awful. All the news was on the missed goaltend and ensuing tech on Collins, but the officiating was bad the whole game.
First, let's establish that this is unusual. I don't know that it is.
Officials advance in the Tournament also.
Of the initial group of 12 officials at a tourney site in the Round of 64, only the best 6 will advance to the Round of 32.
The first weekend, it is very likely that referees may work the same team twice in those two games.
This is not unusual.
According to http://phillyref.com/basketball/postseasonmen.html there were 13 instances of refs being assigned to the same team twice in the first weekend of the 2017 Tournament.
Jeff Clark - Gonzaga
Ron Groover - Arizona
Gregory Nixon - Wisconsin
Paul Szelc - Notre Dame
Brian O'Connell - Kentucky
Earl Walton - Purdue
Larry Scirotto - Florida
Timothy Clougherty - Florida State
Terry Oglesby - Oregon
William Covington Jr. - Oregon
Verne Harris - Cincinnati
Lee Cassell - Cincinnati
Joseph Lindsay - USC
There definitely has been an unusual amount of bad officiating in this tournament in my opinion. A TON of games have been poorly officiated, and many of them were decided by bad calls down the stretch. John Higgins' family is still getting death threats from UK fans (that's not a joke). It's been a weird tournament.
Lenny Wirtz or Dick Paparo refereed every Duke game for my four undergrad years, it seems.
(I don't recall it being discussed on this board that Lenny died in the fall of 2013 -- might've been and it just escapes my recall. Here's a short item about him: http://www.cincinnati.com/story/spor...story/7397157/)
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"I swear Roy must redeem extra timeouts at McDonald's the day after the game for free hamburgers." --Posted on InsideCarolina, 2/18/2015
"I wanted it to be in my hands," Roach said of his game-sealing drive. "I wanted to take—I wanted that moment."
"Definitely was a bit personal for me," Roach added. "I mean, what happened last year, obviously, but just wanted to come out here and do anything I can to get this win, and we did that." Duke-Carolina, Cameron Indoor, Feb. 4th 2023