Pretty Boy Not Officiating Today

[BIGWSUFAN]

Pretty Boy John Higgans and his crew is not officiating today's MVC Championship Game. Was the officiating crew for the championship game determined in advance or did Higgans and his crew get bounced from the championship game because of their terrible officiating yesterday?

[TrueViewWSU]

Illinois State sure isn't getting the same calls they were yesterday. Totally different game. And yet they lead at the half.

God, I would love to send all of those sCUm fans home crying. Again, sCUm is not a very good team.

[wsushox1]

Kelly Self is officiating this game and he officiated our game yesterday.

Higgins is probably headed to KC.

[wsushox1]

And say what you want higgins is a good referee.

[jocoshock]

Didn't even want to watch this today, but saw the last few minutes of the first half. Looks like IllSt could pull this out. Despited yesterday's game, I would like the Redbirds to win. Would be sweet if they did it 65-54 in the last five seconds again. CU needs to be on the short end of one of those games.

[WuDrWu]

And say what you want higgins is a good referee.

Not just good, one of the best in the country.

[wu_shizzle]

Outside of the out-of-bounds call and the body contact by Carmichael, Higgins was fine. It seemed like the other two were watching a different game.

So far IlSU is being allowed to play chippy again today.

[BIGWSUFAN]

And say what you want higgins is a good referee.

I agree Higgans is a good ref, but yesterday he let the game get out of hand and WSU suffered from several no or wrong calls.

Let's start with the double technical. The possession before, Stutz is just getting malled by #13 and no foul is called. The next possession, the pushing starts again. Stutz fouled #13 on the rebound. #13 says something and Stutz responds with "hey" and Stutz gets called for a technical. How is that the right decision? Normally Higgins keeps a game under control, but not today. He was not even close to his best.

Other examples:

6:02 left, Ragland driving to the basket and gets obviously held by #32 and Higgins does not call anything.

5:56 left, Moore goes back down the court and throws the ball out of bounds. Ref said Williams touched it. You can clearly see he did not even have his hands up before the ball went went by him. Ref indicated it was off his hand.

3:33 left, Raglund cut for the basket with a bounce pass from Murray and #2 holds Joe and the pass goes out of bounds. Higgins doesn't call the foul.

:34.8 left when Murry poked the ball out and was off the knee of Brown and Higgins didn't see it hit Brown's knee.

:06.4 left when Williams is called for a foul on Brown when he maintained vertical position on the drive. Ths call was not made on both ends of the court. During the game, many fouls were not called on Illinois St. when the Shockers drove to the basket.

This officiating crew (including Higgins) made numerous bad calls or no calls. The game was not officiated the same on both ends of the floor.

[wuhog]

This thread needs to end. I was as upset as anybody about the poor officiating, but it is over and we must move on. Starting to sound whiney.

[wuhog]

This thread needs to end. I was as upset as anybody about the poor officiating, but it is over and we must move on. Starting to sound whiney.

Nothing to be said that hasn't already been said.

[SpanglerFan316]

Didn't even want to watch this today, but saw the last few minutes of the first half. Looks like IllSt could pull this out. Despited yesterday's game, I would like the Redbirds to win. Would be sweet if they did it 65-54 in the last five seconds again. CU needs to be on the short end of one of those games.

After looking at some of the posts on the Redbird board during the game, I would have trouble supporting them in the future.

[shocktown]

Nothing to be said that hasn't already been said.

How about this one, pause your dvr at 8:52 mark of the 2nd half. What's the shot clock say, what is Marshall signaling and where is the ball?

It is what it is, but the list of no calls going one way is long. Saying that, WSU had plenty of other chances to score just one more time in the last 5 plus minutes and couldn't get it done. Two good plays and shots set up at the end that didn't fall. The bottom line is in retrospect, still had a chance and didn't happen.

Wuhog, what's that? Sounds like a squealing, dirty, animal. You should like whining.



Or go away if you don't like the thread.

[shox1989]

This thread needs to end. I was as upset as anybody about the poor officiating, but it is over and we must move on. Starting to sound whiney.

Venting is good. And if you can't vent on a fan message board than where else. It is certainly better than kicking the cat or breaking your TV.

[WSUwatcher]

Venting is good. And if you can't vent on a fan message board than where else. It is certainly better than kicking the cat or breaking your TV.

Check with KC about the TV, '89 -- it sounds like he may have done both.

[TrueViewWSU]

After looking at some of the posts on the Redbird board during the game, I would have trouble supporting them in the future.

Well, now they're miserable and if lucky, headed towards the NIT. I hope they enjoy watching us on tv the next 2 weeks.