I watched it. There were a number of horrible calls, but I guess it’s likely Memphis benefitted from some bad call or other too. I hated seeing the one where our player was called for a foul when one of their players just plain slipped (this was in regulation). There were other bad calls where we lost a foul and I’m not sure if one of those was against Dorsey or not. But I do know that if they were going to be reviewing the one on our player like they did, they should have reviewed the play where their guy slipped and we ended up with a foul. I watched that in slow motion replay on my DVR.

Too bad, a game where it all came down to a couple of points in regulation. Every free throw had to count and we were up gainst bad officiating as well. On the other hand, they didn’t call a technical when one of our players was frustrated and slammed the ball down and so we got a break once or twice.

It’s a shame it had to go that way. Maybe Derrick will come back to get the championship that eluded him this year instead of going to the pros?

Wishful thinking, I guess. Those guys could do it. They almost did it this time. They should have. They had it and even against all the odds and the bad calls. But it got past them because they needed that same intensity all the way through like they had with UCLA, Texas, and the others.

At least it was a respectable loss and we had a chance till the end.

Well, a friend tells me that we should have fouled right before the other team could be allowed to shoot that last 3 pointer because then they would have had to shoot a 1 and 1 and at most could only get 2 points. We should have won in regulation just based on needing to tell the team to foul. But somehow we didn’t set it up. The same thing happened at the end of the South Carolina - Vanderbilt game. Vanderbilt won on a last second 3 pointer because the Gamecocks didn’t think to foul.