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Originally Posted by MizzouRah
Yeah so? Should have been called a flagrant foul, period. You don't enforce that rule whenever it's convient.
I'm not an Xavier fan over Ohio St., I just hate the way the game is called once the tourney starts and refs are on TV. Xavier should have fouled Lewis before he even had a chance to put up a three. Still doesn't make it right for Oden to shove a player like that - right in front of the refs!! If that would have been called, game over Xavier wins due to the technical free throws and Xavier's ball.
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For those that want to see the foul:
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I don't believe that is even close to a flagrant foul worthy of a technical. It may be an intentional foul, but everyone who watches college basketball knows that a team that needs to foul at the end of the game can do so without it being called intentional. Oden went for the foul and made more contact than was strictly necessary, but it wasn't flagrant. It was a typical big-man/little-man contact which doesn't take much for the little-man to go down.