NCAA Officiating: Problems Need to Be Addressed

Georgetown-Villanova, Georgetown-West Virginia

Need I go on?

Ignoring women's college basketball (Tennessee-Rutgers anyone?) and mid-major basketball (anyone who has watched mid-major basketball knows the home team is always favored).

But the officiating problem is not about favoring anyone, but it is.

The big-name teams and big-name players get favorable treatment.

Some of the older generation who has watched Atlantic Coast Conference from the very founding of the league believe Tyler Hansborough may be the most "ref-protected" player in the history of the conference.

And then there are hand-checks and close officiating on the perimeter, but yet post players are allowed to mug each other.

Then there is a difference among conferences between what is and is not a foul.  The Big 10 and the Big East tend to allow more "banging" underneath the hoop, while a conference like the ACC is known for calling many fouls at the top of the key.

And then there is flopping (note: there is a difference between flopping and exaggerating a foul call.  If there is contact but not a lot and the defense falls to the ground, this is a accentuating a foul).

Then is it not funny when a team, that is more physical, have maybe none or one foul out while the other team has four or five foul out?

Or how about when an official makes a foul call on one end of the court and the exact same event occurs at the other end and it is either a no-call or an offensive foul?

The NCAA needs to do something about officiating.  Rules are not open to interpretation. 

It is like baseball when each individual umpire has their own specific strike-zone (that even varies from pitcher to pitcher).

It is better than NBA officiating cannot be an excuse anymore.

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