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Originally Posted by jettio
UConn had a lot of key players out with injury. Their game strategy was to play with a lot of defensive effort on a 7 player rotation that was not UConn's 7 best players going into the season.
The foul trouble had more to do with UConn being a shorthanded team that needed everything to go right to have a chance.
The problem was UConn kept winning and made the final four to play a team they could only beat if they hustled and fouled the shit out of them the whole game.
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I mean yeah they played more aggressively but that’s a tight whistle. It’s not like they were playing hack a clark. Both centers with 4 fouls? The guard who wasn’t even guarding Caitlin clark with 4 fouls?
I just hate to see it. When late in games defenders are backing off offensive players for easy scores that’s not great basketball. Refs have to swallow the whistle more in tournament basketball. Or more appropriately, they need to realize younger kids are more prone to mistakes and just raise the ejection limit to 6 fouls. Way too easy for refs to have massive influence on games on this level.