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mic4tech's picture mic4tech | 10 years 4 months # | BUZZKETBALL CENTRAL: Pittsburgh Panthers (20-8, 9-7) at Virginia Tech Hokies (15-13, 8-8) 7 PM ESPN3

Agreed, my biggest problem with the refs is their complete inconsistency and missing obvious calls such as double-dribbles and traveling. I really thought at the beginning of the year it was going to be better when they were calling things pretty tight and according to the 31 rule changes, but, they have gotten back to the same sloppy game calling. I don't buy that it's so tough. I do think the refs are over-scheduled. Maybe they shouldn't be allowed to do so many games in a week.

All that said, the Hokies are doing a good job going to the hoop to draw fouls or score, a signature of Buzz's teams which I followed at MU. But, the Hokies have to improve their FT shooting. Luckily for Tech, Pitt shot poorly tonight and helped us out.

Bottom line, I'll take a "W" and I'm looking forward to being at the game Sat.

mic4tech's picture mic4tech | 10 years 4 months # | Has Lady Hokies Basketball Regressed?

Tonight's poor performance, particularly on offense, just reinforces for me that Wolff needs to go. Running a high-school flex offense with limited or no motion, no off-ball screens, and a soft perimeter passing offense is NOT making use of his talent. The defense is solid and generates transition baskets, but, it's not enough. The team was just NOT ready to play tonight and that is all on the coaching staff, period!!!

We all know Weaver, RIP, really messed up when he didn't give Bonnie any support and she left. We need a proven women's coach. Time for a change!

MVhokie69's picture MVhokie69
| 10 years 4 months # | BUZZKETBALL CENTRAL: Pittsburgh Panthers (20-8, 9-7) at Virginia Tech Hokies (15-13, 8-8) 7 PM ESPN3

I'm all for the hype train and all but our current rpi is only 98, and going with the current conference standings as the seeding and assuming no other upsets, we'd have a Miami home win, a Clemson neutral win, a Miami neutral win, and a Duke neutral loss. That would put our rpi at 73 which wouldn't make the tournament. Even if we beat Duke and then lose to UNC in the championship our RPI only goes up to 69 which is still unlikely to make the dance. It appears the the only realistic way to make it to the dance is to just win. Don't forget that if another higher seed team wins then our win against them would be considered a lower quality win and that would put us even farther away from an at large.

#Sauces http://www.rpiforecast.com/wizard/Virginia%20Tech.html

Edit: I'm tired and screwed up the first time, should be correct now.

SCHokie2011's picture SCHokie2011 | 10 years 4 months # | Friends that get married in the fall

My FIL is just as much of a Hokie fan as I am. I doubt he would have paid for a wedding that interfered with Hokie football and even then he probably wouldn't even have attended.

Dmhbeaver's picture Dmhbeaver
| 10 years 4 months # | Buzzketball's Long, Complicated Road to the NIT

I remember watching that game. Tech had the lead and the ball. Ron Perry was dribbling to run some clock; and the ref called a 5 sec penalty. Dayton got the ball and scored. We lost.

avtfan's picture avtfan
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| 10 years 4 months # | Buzzketball's Long, Complicated Road to the NIT

I would really like to see them get to the #7 seed, that way they would play at 7pm on wednesday instead of 12 pm and it would be a more favorable matchup most likely

HokieAlum6144's picture HokieAlum6144
| 10 years 4 months # | BUZZKETBALL CENTRAL: Pittsburgh Panthers (20-8, 9-7) at Virginia Tech Hokies (15-13, 8-8) 7 PM ESPN3

I can agree to disagree. Hitting the free throws would have helped significantly, but Pitt should have been a lot further behind. There were quite a few calls that replays showed were really bad.

I hate the fact that in many games it seems like the refs call many fouls right before the ends of halves to try and even up the number of fouls that were called in a game.

TechHokie13's picture TechHokie13 | 10 years 4 months # | BUZZKETBALL CENTRAL: Pittsburgh Panthers (20-8, 9-7) at Virginia Tech Hokies (15-13, 8-8) 7 PM ESPN3

Usually, I'd agree with you (and as a ref for both football and wrestling, I can confirm: it's hard and the pressure is huge). However, those guys are in the ACC for a reason. Missing that charge is just inexcusable. Wilson was there and set for two seconds, and the call was a block. There's literally nothing else he could have done to be more set. A few other calls that were 50/50, yeah, ok, reffing is hard and we'll let it slide. But that one will have me heated for quite a while.

QuinnVT's picture QuinnVT | 10 years 4 months # | BUZZKETBALL CENTRAL: Pittsburgh Panthers (20-8, 9-7) at Virginia Tech Hokies (15-13, 8-8) 7 PM ESPN3

Can we let the go with "the refs suck" mentality. Its hard to officiate sports. We went to the line 35 times to their 23 - the refs didn't almost blow it for us . Every game has some tough calls - especially block/charge calls -it is the toughest call on the court. I thought Wilson was there in time, but the ref didn't see it that way. They don't have the same angle we have or the time to process it like we do sitting on our couch.
It really irritates me how we've just got to the point that I read these boards after a game and always there is complaining about the refs. We expect them to be perfect from the first time they step on a court/field and expect them to be BETTER the next time. It is not realistic. Humans err. I guarantee you those guys review tape after every game of all their calls and they are their own worst critics. I know as with all groups, some refs are better than others, and some are better people than others, but in the course of a 40 minute game, the teams have multiple opportunities to make the refs irrelevant, so let's worry about the teams more so than the refs.

Hokie_in_TarHell_Country's picture Hokie_in_TarHell_Country | 10 years 4 months # | Buzzketball's Long, Complicated Road to the NIT

Looking towards the ACC tourney, if I understand the tiebreaker rules, a VT win OR Pitt and Clempson losing would give us at least a #7 seed and make the road to our autobid a little easier.

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