*Deep breath*
The Wisconsin Badgers saw the final minute of their game against the Iowa Hawkeyes get away from them thanks in large part to numerous questionable calls and no-calls from the Big Ten officiating crew.
It’s not just me saying this, as Badger Head Coach Greg Gard went off in his postgame press conference on the officiating and on how the league sees and judges Brad Davison.
The Davison situation aside, arguably the most significant string of foul calls were the final two on Wisconsin guard D’Mitrik Trice that put him on the bench for the end of the game. Not only is Trice the team’s most important late-game player, he may be the only one that can singlehandedly close a basketball game.
So with 40 seconds left Trice fouled out. The score at that point was 71-71. After that? Iowa closed the game on a 6-2 run and handed Wisconsin their seventh-straight loss against a ranked opponent.
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One of the points of Gard’s postgame press conference was to put emphasis on the joke that replay reviews have become in the sport.
Well, we’re going to the replay booth for the late fouls on Trice and seeing if he really should have fouled out of the game.
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