Fouled out: Badgers down MSU, 65-63

Once again we see this weak team go under white the intensity of the games picks up. Props to Drew, and Kalin…The problem with this team as i have said all year…is the lack of a post prescence. Tom Izzo(love the guy) really needs to stop recruiting weak low skilled bigs. Start using the reputation of this program to get quality bigs who can get a double double night in and night out. I finally got a look at herzog today. I do understand that he hasn’t played all season, so ill give him the benefit of the doubt. He sill looks very sorry. SUTON AND GRAY CAN HANG IT UP….THEY ARE TERRIBLE. Now we await our seeding. We will be lucky if we get higher than a four. That means we will have to play legitimate competition all the way through if we are to make it to San Antionio. We haven’t won a close game against legitimate competition all year. So needless to say the furthest we will make it to is the sweet sixteen. (if we go that far) Hang it up Spartans. I guess I’ll have to wait unti next year for the final four. What a promising season gone down the tube!!!!

You gotta overcome the resiliency, even the bad officiating in a game. That’s what I strongly believed all year.

However, I do agree with Sparty that this game was decided by the worst officiating, period. It cost the last chance to make the big statement for our seniors.

We did almost everything and just enough to win the game, yet the worst officials ruined the game of basketball, and now ESPN headline praises, “Wisconsin’s great comeback.” Oh my god.

I don’t know the restrictions on what the newswriters or analysts can say, but it should be clear to everybody who watched the entire game: the inconsistent and anti-favored calls against MSU decided the game.

It ruined the soul of striving-for-life Neitzel, and I really hope Izzo does something about it this time.

If anyone knows, please tell me how to reach or where to write one
opinion to the Big Ten officials. I can’t get over this one for a while…

Well, let’s hope the best for the final run. Go State!

Seven years ago, Bo Ryan entered the Big Ten and ushered out the golden years of MSU basketball. Wisconsin is THE basketball power in the Big Ten. The officials gave 5 points to MSU (Bo’s technical, Trevon’s ankle) and Izzo still could not pullout the win. He gets out-coached every time he steps on the court with Bo. I’ve read all the complaints about the officials, what about the other 10 of 13 games where Bucky beat Sparty since Bo started walking the sidelines? Time to start shopping for a Bo killer. I hear Bobby Knight is available.

LIsten Bo owns Izzo…we all know you are a wiscockson fan…. But lets not lie here. Who cares if that statement is true. Izzo is way more nationally known – so is our program. Hence, MSU gets more nationally televised games, recruits and press by close to a 2:1 margin… They are not the best program, not even # 2 (Indiana). They have never accomplished anything nationally – couldn’t even do that last year when they were a better team and ranked #1 in the country, Izzo will shine, bo is a sleaze-ball. Ask Doug Gottlieb or even Andy Katz (who went to uofw, who has a better program). Get your facts straight – 19 ft to 37 = ridiculous. 4 of 15 players foul-out; over 25% of our team. not one of their players has more than 3. This isn’t how bball is played. The refs ruin the flow of the game. A foul is defined in 2 parts: (1) giving the player an unfair advantage and (2)illegal physical contact. It appeared the refs said “Lets only call these on the Green guys.” which they did. There has to be fair calling, in this case there was not. We were working out tails off and when every stat shows it, there needs to be something done to not contemplate the game. wiscockson plays bull-shit basketball – boring, untalented and as slow as a crock pot. The Big-Ten (11) needs to step up and do something about this officiating, they are ruing the game. The best team did not win, I am not saying MSU is better, but yesterday they, by all means, were the better of the two teams in Indianapolis.

Everyone sign this petition to fire Ed Hightower (he’s the ref that screwed MSU last night).

http://www.petitiononline.com/tower123/petition.html

In 1998, Coaches Izzo and Keady called him out for being a partial referee craving for attention.

Hightower hasn’t forgotten that and always takes it out on Izzo’s and Keady’s teams.

MSU is 3-8 in the last 3 years in games refereed by Hightower, and constantly has a great free throw deficit when playing with him as the ref. (consider that MSU wins about 70% of its games)

With all do respect Julious this team and this program is measured what they do in March. I agree with you that the season thus far has been a dissapointment, but you can’t give up on them before the real test is given. Who knows if this team has a run in them, but Izzo has a 71% winning percentage in the NCAA’s and you never know what can happen. And if you remember correctly the last MSU team that made the final 4 had the same knock on them.

izzo can’t beat Bo. wisconsin has never had half the talent that izzo has had but they still whip them because they know, understand and play team basketball. and it is taught by Bo. i agree that hightower is a horrible referee but when your bigs stand behind the wisconsin bigs, don’t move their feet, and play defense with their hands, they are going to get fouls. doesn’t take a brain surgeon long to figure that out. msu got out played by a “team” of not as talented players which the Badgers are. you people need to look within rather than hurling slurs at the Badgers and their coach. accept that you got beat by an inferior group of basketball players who were coached by a far superior coach. that is the key, get over it.