2021 NCAA Tournament Open Thread

Actualelguapo · March 21, 2021, 5:33pm

Fouls mounting.

MichiganMan2424 · March 21, 2021, 5:35pm

Here comes the Illinois whistle

Actualelguapo · March 21, 2021, 5:35pm

Our refs from yesterday showed up. SMDH.

J11 · March 21, 2021, 5:35pm

Illinois spends 12 second-half minutes in the bonus after neither team reached the bonus in the first half. I assume both teams just forgot how to play basketball in the locker room?

jemblue · March 21, 2021, 5:35pm

Loyola is tough. I keep thinking each UI run will be the end but they keep fighting back.

814eastu · March 21, 2021, 5:35pm

The 2nd half being officiated completely different than the first.

steve · March 21, 2021, 5:36pm

Loyola getting hit with everything while Frazier grabs the waist of the guy he’s guarding. Cool.

BigBoutros · March 21, 2021, 5:36pm

these are crazy phantom fouls

harmon98 · March 21, 2021, 5:36pm

Curbelo out of control and bailed out with the whistle for the 40th time this year

BigBoutros · March 21, 2021, 5:36pm

was he even touched?

bacon141 · March 21, 2021, 5:36pm

It was a good no call on Giorgi IMO, but how do you call that foul on Loyola but not the Giorgi one? Both are not fouls

J11 · March 21, 2021, 5:36pm

If these guys had worked last night’s ACU/Texas game, ACU would have had six guys foul out.

They might still have won, though. Texas was awful.

quickdarshan · March 21, 2021, 5:37pm

So we really don’t want Indiana to take a look at Porter Mosier do we.

mazs · March 21, 2021, 5:37pm

Can we have a separate dedicated officiating thread?

814eastu · March 21, 2021, 5:37pm

Just have to hope Loyola gets some makeups while they still have the lead. Fouls are 7-3 I think right now.

BigBoutros · March 21, 2021, 5:38pm

Usually when a 13/14/15 gets the upset it’s because they play the game of their lives. ACU was awful and they still pulled it off!

bacon141 · March 21, 2021, 5:38pm

Need it to stay a 7-10 point lead to the last TV timeout. They’ll need some cushion for when the refs let anything go and Illinois starts getting desperate

Actualelguapo · March 21, 2021, 5:38pm

If I’m Moser, I’m pointing this out every time a ref is close to me. It’s not like Illinois isn’t playing as aggressively on D as Loyola.

jemblue · March 21, 2021, 5:38pm

Ball don’t lie

Mattski · March 21, 2021, 5:39pm

May not last. But there’s something so satisfying about games–any sport–where the experts spend halftime telling you how the favored team is going to come back to crush the underdog. And it doesn’t happen, and doesn’t happen, and still. . . ?