Couple of points then I'm movin on, NYU led WashU. for the entire contest, not totally sure but anyone can look it up,  but I think WashU's first lead came in O.T.So NYU would not be fouling to stop clock or parade WashU. to the line in order to play catch-up.  They had the lead,  also, NYU ran everything through Boone first, he was not a jump shooter and neither was Falcon, he played close to the basket, Decorso was the shooter but with a lead how much could he have been firing.The extraordinary amount of fouls called that day should have just been considered incidental contact that refs and players and coaches consider part of the game, after all this is college basketball.  How many college games last year had a similar stat line?  how many times did a college basketball team shoot 45 freethrows? Of all the games played last year how many times do you think a team was called for 30 fouls?  Not many I'll bet.  Do you think fans would want to watch competitive teams play basketball only to have refs continually stop play by calling "off the ball" fouls.   Good refs let the best players play and keep the game flowing. If all games were officiated with constant whistle blowing the game would stink.

Gregory, it doesn't make sense to think that there is a home-cooking situation happening at Wash U. aside from the regular home court advantage that most teams enjoy. The UAA should be legitimate enough of a confererence  to monitor it's home and away basketball contests. What happened last season to Brandeis and NYU in St. Louis was way off the charts in regard to the refereeing.  If a similar disparity in fouls called, freethrow attempts and foul-outs to players happened in another conference; lets say the ACC for example, this would'nt have have so easily dismissed by basketball people. Imagine Duke going into Wake and shooting 12 freethrows compared to Wake's 45 and losing by 1 in O.T..those refs would have some explaining to do. As for you're other point about visiting teams recognizing how the game is being officiated, in regard to the NYU-WashU game last year it was stated before that NYU fielded a very experienced team where 3 of the 5 players who fouled out were seniors that played  significant minutes for NYU for 4 years,  and were all-conference players in some regard. You can't say that they just  weren't used to midwestern refs.  I think the UAA is a legit conference, great academic schools; there happened to be 2 isolated instances last year. For whatever reason,  the refereeing was embarrasing and I don't know how anyone can defend what happened.  Brandeis and NYU played tough road games against a quality WashU. team and instead of a satisfying win they were awarded a loss.

Quote from: Marty Peretz on November 25, 2007, 11:04:52 PM
Any word on when Deluca gets back?

Impressive win today for Wash.U. without Wallis. It proves very comforting to know that we are still a very good basketball team even without our All-American running the show. We will surely miss him a great deal, but don't sleep on WUSTL just yet. Our homecourt advantage will pay great dividends throughout the UAA season....

Yeah,  like when that home court kicked in last year against Brandeis(31-39 freethrows for Wash. U.,  compared to 8-12 for Brandeis; 27 fouls on Brandeis and15 for Wash.U  and how about that beaut with NYU; Wash U. 38-45 from the line vs 8-12 for  NYU, while 5 players foul out for NYU including 3 senior starters who had to be well adjusted to UAA road games, and NYU loses by 1 in O.T. after having a 13 point lead late in the second half. Yeah, you should look forward to great dividends from your home court advantage.     


Edited to straighten out the quote formatting

Also from NYU, Mike DeCorso (07) is playing in Ireland for the Cork Neptunes.