I've seen the non-call in the VaTech game against Flip discussed in multiple threads. I think we have a consensus that a flagrant should have been called. Shout out to iragsdale for providing the official rules on flagrants from the NCAA rule book.
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The celebration punch is not a part of a legal offensive or defensive play, a "normal basketball play". I've seen it discussed on ESPN and ACC Network where there was disbelief that it was not called. So it's not just us Duke fans scratching our heads over this. Here's everyone's favorite ESPN studio guy, and big toe, talking about it:
From the postgame press conference, Scheyer said this:
On Filipowski getting hit in the throat on the last play and his mindset:
“I can tell you, in that play, he got hit so hard that he was throwing up in the huddle. He was full-out throwing up, and he wasn’t
about to be out for a second. He was ready to come back in, and we ended up drawing up the play, and put the ball in his hands and
we just missed the shot. That’s what happened right before, and he’s a big-time warrior, man. He’s a competitor. He hates to lose, I
thought you could see that tonight. He really put us on his back and willed us to put us in a position to win that game.”
But this doesn't address the non-call. Neither did the DBR front page, which basically said the same thing about the situation as Scheyer did.
So I just wanted to open a specific thread and ask the question: Has there been any official comment by the ACC, by VaTech or by Duke, or by anybody else other than posters, sportwriters, bloggers and talking heads about the non-call? I've been searching but haven't found anything. To me, they need to admit it was a missed call. Because if they don't, the offender can just say, "I was celebrating, it was incidental!". It doesn't change the outcome of the game, obviously.
No need to post that you also think it was a missed call. Now if you think it was the correct call, I'm sure people would like to hear the reasoning (other than, "the refs didn't call it"). But any official statements are what I'm looking for.
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