With Duke leading by 3 with seconds remaining, Duke’s Sheldon Williams clobbered BC’s Tyrese Rice during the latter’s layup attempt. Williams didn’t come close to the ball.
Said blown call led to the night’s 79th reaction shot of Doug Flutie. About the nicest thing you can say about ESPN’s decision to keep a lens glued to the former Eagles QB is that Fluie garnered far more airtime than Robert Kraft or Tim Russert.
I don’t wanna keep rubbing the Home Theatre salt in your wounds or anything, but obscene chants directed at J.J. Redick’s family are so much more rousing in HD.
(Texas’ Brad Buckman, shown colliding with Missouri’s Kalen Grimes)
PJ Tucker shot out the lights and the Longhorns bounced back from the mugging they suffered last Saturday night to Oklahoma. As for Mizzou, I’m with our correspondent on this one. Quinn Snyder’s hair is just too nice for him to be an effective teacher of young men.
Your recap, while correct, seems entirely different from the AP assessment: The Duke forward stood his ground and sent Rice to the floor without drawing a foul, preserving the second-ranked Blue Devils’ 83-81 victory over No. 15 Boston College on Wednesday night.
Insert stock Shelden Williams joke here.
“stood his ground”? geez, just look at the replay. Williams collided with Rice in the air…the former has his arms outstretched, but he clearly plows into Rice and never touches the ball.
The Globe’s AP report says “Shelden Williams stopped Tyrese Rice on a coast-to-coast drive — sending him to the floor hard without drawing a foul”. Which, while technically correct, doesn’t really describe how Rice was stopped…or that Williams made full contact with the shooter without ever touching the shot.
Perhaps the most shocking thing about the non-call was the play-by-play. Dick Vitale actually said that it should have been a foul on Duke. Astonishing.
it was shocking that you could hear Vitale yelling that loudly with Redick’s cock in his mouth