Defiance 49 Cleveland Central Catholic 45 OT

[C-Bolt]

The Notre Dame player definitely should have been t'd up from what I saw,but with that being said it has nothing to do with the ethnicity of the players,I have witnessed many inner city black kids do the same thing in college and no call is made.Like warriornation said I think it has more to do with one being college and one high school,officials in high school usually have far more touchy trigger fingers than those in college and that goes for football too.

[anderson2012]

It is a bit ironic that on the same evening last Saturday, only a few hours after the Central Catholic player got teed up, a Notre Dame player in the NCAA Tournament made almost the exact same offensive move and dunk against the big, bad Kentucky Wildcats, as captured in this YouTube video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2VkPbxfnKE

Of course, nobody called a technical foul on the Notre Dame player, nor did any announcer even raise that as a possibility, despite the fact that Mr. Connaughton kicks one leg up to a point at which his entire foot is above the level of the rim. There was not a soul under the basket. And this occurred under an NCAA rule that also makes it illegal to grasp the rim except when “trying to prevent an obvious injury to self or others.” A provocateur might suggest that the only differentiating factor in the calls was that one call involved an inner-city player from Cleveland competing against a bunch of small town kids from Defiance, while the other was an underdog, undersized Irishman taking on a lineup of future NBA studs. But I will let others debate that. I'll stick with "bad call on Lillard" and let it go at that.

Have you considered that a technical foul in that situation would make for bad television?

[knightruner]

easy way to solve the call. No dunking in high school again or raise the rim to 11 feet. I like the later better.

[RED-MAN]

What you just said was raise the rim. To make the game better. Sounds like littlemans disease. The game is fine the way it is. I think the ref made a mistake. Got in a hurray due to the magnitude of the situation. By the way the three point line opened it up for the little man.