Kentucky at Texas A&M Game Thread.

[Joneslab]

Tough break for Isaac. Played great. The irony is if not for him we would've been drilled in that game.

Officiating was atrocious as we've come to expect.

Gotta hope the Willis injury isn't devastating.

[ukwebfan]

Any blame for Humphries is misplaced imo. We don't go to OT without him.

[lilproUK98]

Complete BS. I've just come to expect that on the road over the years. You have to play at least 10 points better on the road to have a chance to win.

[Joneslab]

Cal says in postgame that he's heard that Willis has a pretty bad ankle sprain.

[KCKUKFan]

Before you all go bananas, that T was correct.

Swallow your whistle. You don't let nonsense like that decide a one point game in overtime. You let the players decide it. It wasn't so egregious that the ref couldn't have looked the other way.

Utterly awful way to lose a hotly competitive game.

[lilproUK98]

Before you all go bananas, that T was correct.

Nope. You let it go, even if it should be a T, (which it shouldn't in that situation...he's celebrating). I disagree and you will never convince me otherwise. Ref has to use common sense judgement. All slams of balls to the ground are not the same.

[Katmendo]

Cal says in postgame that he's heard that Willis has a pretty bad ankle sprain.

This time of year,....

That's very, VERY, close to season ending.

[Joneslab]

Swallow your whistle. You don't let nonsense like that decide a one point game in overtime. You let the players decide it. It wasn't so egregious that the ref couldn't have looked the other way.

Utterly awful way to lose a hotly competitive game.

The craziest thing about that call is that, if a guy drives in and gets murdered, usually they'll play-on because they don't want to decide the game.

But in that case they decided the game. It makes no sense in the context of how they generally officiate in the final seconds.

That said, Isaac lost his mind. Never seen a player do that. I think the moment was just too big for him after he'd played an absolutely fantastic game.

[Joneslab]

This time of year,....

That's very, VERY, close to season ending.

Would ruin any chance Kentucky has. Willis had become, outside of Willis, the most crucial player on the team.

[lilproUK98]

Good game, Ags.

Good game, Cats.

Bad game, crew. You were the epitome of what's wrong with modern college officiating. When you weren't incompetent, you were over-correcting, to make up for your incompetence.... which resulted in you looking more incompetent.

Exactly, Spot. On. I'm just done with officials...I'd almost rather have the players make their own calls at this point.

[lilproUK98]

The craziest thing about that call is that, if a guy drives in and gets murdered, usually they'll play-on because they don't want to decide the game.

But in that case they decided the game. It makes no sense in the context of how they generally officiate in the final seconds.

That said, Isaac lost his mind. Never seen a player do that. I think the moment was just too big for him after he'd played an absolutely fantastic game.

Anybody wanna tell me Humphries can't contribute now?

[Katmendo]

The "T" was right, IMO.

If an opponent had done that on UK's home floor, with the roles reversed, we would be howling out loud for the same call. That's human nature.

But, if that OBVIOUS incident is the right call now, with little pressure of even being during a live ball play, it MUST be easily and obviously reproduced across the college landscape.

Humans are officials, but this level of inconsistency from one minute of the game to the next, to one half to the next, in one level to the next, from one conference to the next, to one PART of a season to the next, is sign of a systemic problem.

[UKtimefor9]

Don't even know what to say about that game. So much good, so much bad.

Make a FT, get a rebound, Humphries hand the ball to the ref and UK wins.

Tough to swallow. Dang

[Westtncat]

Of course the loss of Willis hurt us a lot but what worries me is how we played with a quick turn around. Defense wasnt that good. Not worried about this game in particular , more worried about tourney time and Murray and Ulis having so much of the scoring weight on them. Tourney games require complete energy and focus, thats hard for a guy that plays that many minutes. We absolutely have to have Willis back to have a shot. Get Willis back, maybe Poythress back and now we know Humphries can contribute a lot and maybe we can slip through.

[Joneslab]

I'm not sure how anybody could say the T was right or wrong. It was such an unusual situation. I've played and seen a lot of games and certainly have never seen anything like that.

I mean, he wasn't taunting. He wasn't showing anybody up. He had been warned, so in that way it could be right.

There could be something I don't know about the rulebook, but it seems like that wasn't right or wrong but was just the official's judgment call.