College basketball refs and conspiracies

Posted by A. Isaac on November 18th, 2009 at 1:09 pm

The growing trend amongst gamblers has been “Stay away from college basketball”.

Maybe it was because it seemed like refs called too many fouls on the visiting team.
Maybe it was because Ed Hightower officiated every game.
Maybe it was because Tim Donaghy had a brother as a NCAA ref (not true).

Or maybe, just maybe, these guys just suck at their job.

An examination of 365 major conference games played during the 2004-05 college men’s basketball season found a clear pattern of an increased probability of a foul on the team with fewer fouls, the visiting team and the team that is leading.

As somebody who just attended the MSU-Gonzaga game last night, I can tell you this: College basketball refs are the most incompetent officials of any sport. They routinely miss simple calls and have no idea when to call a charge or a block.

And sometimes they just invent stuff on the fly

H/t: SportingNews

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