[ti]GameDay[/ti]UConn v Baylor - Elite Eight - 3/29/21 7:00 PM - TV: ESPN

Okay. I saw the last "no call" play again on ESPN. There was a lot of contact on the final shot by Carrington. But Liv and Aaliyah were there with their arms up and Carrington came into them. I don't know much about reffing, but seemed like a good no call to me.

And I feel bad for the injury. It would have been a better, more satisfying win with them at full strength. But injuries are a part of the game. Despite that, Baylor still came close to pulling it out.

Kudos to Baylor for putting up the good fight. Bueckers willed UConn to a win, and her catch of the long inbounds pass was, in my opinion, the play of the game.

The other amazing thing is that Richards had a nearly empty box score in her 30 minutes. Yet she had a fantasti impact on defense anyway.

    Williams under stress has exhibited brain freeze.  That doesn't mean she will do it again but she caught that rebound in the Ark game and didn't call timeout and just stood there for several seconds.  
    At the end whomever gets the inbounds will be fouled and it better be Bueckers. 

already calmed down and moved on. 

Richard's injury was the real turning point IMO.  She won a few defensive POY last year and was doing quite a job on Paige.  I think that we would have been hard pressed to pull this off had she not been injured.  I feel for her.  She is a senior

I do like Kim, actually. She's a fighter, a NC as player and coach.

But she defended Baylor when its leadership had covered up rape and an overall hostile attitude toward women. And she threatened violence on national TV to anyone who disagreed (I realize that her threat was hardly threatening)/

Please refer to my research at the very beginning of this thread. Baylor is papering over its racist origins as well.

"The game was close as it reached the end. Red had argued at the end of the third period to have a basket by Heinsohn disallowed. (Heinsohn had gone off the court during a foul shot, sneaked down an aisle and retured under the other basket to catch a court-long pass from Sanders for the score.) Red's team had taken a three-point lead into the fourth period. Red had kept the lead by keeping his younger bodies on the floor.

Three seconds were left, Red's team ahead, 92-90, with Pete Maravich on the foul line for two shots. Red called a timeout.

"Make the first shot," Red said. "Then miss the second, so time will run out."

"Miss the second?" Maravich said.

"Miss the second," Red said.

Maravich made the first. Maravich missed the second. Time ran out as the other team tried to move the ball up the floor and Red pulled the cellophane wrapper from a cigar. Red's team 93, other team 90.

The cigar was his own."
© Copyright 2006 Globe Newspaper Company.

Momma don’t low no ref bashin’ round here

I am pretty sure in Kim's long basketball career her team has won a game or two based on a no call, or a call for a phantom foul. Like Geno said, it is part of basketball. Sometimes it bites your team, sometimes the other.

I'm glad it bit Baylor.

She asked the reporter what she thought about it, and the reporter said, I thought it was a foul, but nobody cares what I think.

That’s when Kim said, Write it that way.

A couple questions about this story. If Red is Red Auerbach, why would he want a basket by Heinsohn, who he coached, to be disallowed? 
How could Red, who retired from coaching in 1966 tell Maravich, who was a rookie in 1970 to miss a foul shot? He never coached Maravich.
And how could Heinsohn, who retired in 1965 be in the same game as Maravich who was a rookie in 1970?