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Bo Ryan

DaveHollis

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Immediately starts complaining that his team was basically screwed because of the refs letting physical play go on. He gave no credit to Duke and all but said the refs cost them the game. As a coach he should show some class and be able to at least compliment the other team. Duke beat them. The refs didn't.

Look the games in the tournament were all pretty terribly officiated. And I totally get where he's upset about the review tonight where it was more than clear Dukes player touched the ball last. They even zoomed in and showed his fingertip bend backwards off the ball. But aside from that, the game was called terribly both ways.

Fact is, Bo Ryan had Okafor in foul trouble and had Winslow in foul trouble. Even with those two major players in foul trouble for most of the game he failed to capitalize. The refs may have blown a few calls in the second half but they weren't the reason Wisconsin lost tonight. Wisconsin is the reason Wisconsin didn't win tonight. Duke played with basically no big inside and Wisconsin stopped attacking the basket. When Duke switched to Zone because of foul trouble Wisconsin settled for outside shots. That's a terrible thing to do against a zone because that's exactly what the other team wants you to do. Settle for bad shots rather than finding the hole in the zone and attacking.

Let's not forget Bo Ryan's team benefited from a pretty terrible call too against Kentucky on Saturday night when they allowed Wisconsin to put a shot up 3 seconds after the shot clock expired. When Kentucky was down 3 with 40 seconds left, they should have been down 1. When Wisconsin hit their free throws and went up 5, forcing a quick and terrible 3 by Kentucky. Kentucky should have only been down 3 and Kentucky could have taken their time and found a better shot. It goes both ways Bo.
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