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(02-02-2018 11:09 AM)Mr.BigBlue Wrote:  

(02-02-2018 10:52 AM)blewbyu Wrote:  

(02-02-2018 08:51 AM)cmett003 Wrote:  MT 2nd chance points from offensive rebounds, ODU shooting 5-25 (20%) from 3 and a few bad calls from the refs was the whole game in a nutshell

Pretty much sums it up....don't understand why we seem to have no home court advantage when it comes to calls by refs....

There were no bad calls by the refs that made a difference in this game. What was the difference... 2-14 from 3 by BJ and Caver, we got manhandled on the boards, and we went the last 4 ish minutes in crunch time without a basket except a end of the game meaningless 3 by BJ. They turned up the Defense and we folded. Giddy took over down the stretch as he always does and we didn't respond. Our 11 steals were great because of our aggressiveness in the passing lanes and doubling down in the post, but what that did was allow them open rebounding lanes when they got shots up. Thus they killed us on the offensive rebounds and 2nd chance points. The NCAA bid goes through MTSU. We will have 4 maybe 5 CUSA loses and likely on the outside looking in to the NIT. Kah and Clinton losses this year was huge !

There was not 1 single call that directly determined the outcome of the game, but in the first couple minutes there were 2 possessions that were out on MT and the refs gave the ball back to them and they made a 3 both times. Even the announcers were like wtf??? There were several really questionable offensive fouls called on ODU in the 2nd half that are never called. Im not saying the refs determined the entire outcome but yes there were bad calls by the refs that made a difference in this game.