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Villanova shafted by ultra-sensitive official

Look at this nonsense:



I hate the call as much as Jay Bilas, but I do disagree with his declaration that "there's no foul there." If there's 14:34 left to play in the first half, and that exact same thing happens, they call it a foul, and no one says a word about it. There's clearly a little body contact from 'Nova's Corey Stokes, and Georgetown's Jonathan Wallace was oh-so slightly impeded.

But all that's beside the point, isn't it? Look at the possession before. If the contact that Stokes made with Wallace is a foul, then what Jeremiah Rivers did to Scottie Reynolds is criminal molestation. Reynolds should be in the District Attorney's office, with a counselor telling him, "Show us on the doll where Jeremiah Rivers touched you."

Here's what I don't get: When Reynolds drove to the basket, the officials adopted an attitude of, "You'll have to kill him for it to be a foul, because we want this to be decided by the players, and not the officials." Two seconds later, though, Wallace is hit with what amounts to a light breeze, and he gets that call? With 0.1 on the clock? Absurd.

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