What can I say?Purdue is called for nearly twice the fouls of Oklahoma, 28 - 15.
Oklahoma attempts 41 more free throws than Purdue. Now folks are going to say that it was Oklahoma's interior oriented offense that merited the free throw advantage. Well, riddle me this? How then did Oklahoma guards attempt 25 free throws. In all, 7 of the 8 Sooners who saw the floor attempted a total of 46 free throws; that's more than 6 a piece on average. Purdue had a total of 4 trips to the line spread over 3 players.
All this, and the Boilermakers still were able to eke out a 4-point lead in overtime. Granted, two empty possessions helped piss that lead away.
Then it happened.
Oklahoma leads 81 - 80 when Keaton Grant tips a ball at the Oklahoma end of the court. Two Sooners and two Boilers converge on the loose ball when suddenly a whistle blows from the referee across court in front of Oklahoma's bench and OK coach Jeff Capel. No player ever established possession and the ball goes out of bounds off of Oklahoma. It should have been Purdue ball with about 24 seconds to go.
Instead, Oklahoma gets the timeout and the inadvertent whistle gives the ball to the Sooners on the alternating possession arrow. As Matt Painter pointed out in his post-game radio comments, the referee blew the call and hid behind the "inadvertent whistle." No, the referee gave Jeff Capel a timeout when his team didn't even have the ball.
I know that's one play in a game of hundreds of plays. Purdue did commit 19 turnovers. Hummel was on the bench - with fouls of course - but come on. Come the f*ck on.
I don't know if you can even fix this situation because all players on both teams will stop at the whistle. Maybe the NCAA should abandon the inadvertent whistle all together and just give the ball to whomever last had possession. For God's sake, get the call right. Don't run like a pussy behind your inadvertent whistle.
Duke next.
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had we played a better overall game, i'd be REALLY po'd.
but my concern of us just finishing games strong (and smart) is growing (9 pt. lead after the under 8 min. timeout).
hopefully we just continue to learn from the mistakes, and take our frustrations out on duke - big time.
i don't think our guys needed much help in the motivation dept., but a game like this could help us in the long run.
good blog btw (good quick read to keep me up, not too lengthy).
I'm with you that this will be beneficial in the long run.
In fact, we kind of get away lucky losing to #11 Oklahoma instead of Wofford like last year.
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