March Madness is in complete swing. As fans pack arenas to see their preferred groups play, some folks can’t aid however notification that top seeds, who hosted the veryfirst 2 rounds of the NCAA competition at home, were apparently benefitting from beneficial officiating. It’s creating sobs for ladies’s basketball to relocation to neutral websites.
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If you were enjoying West Virginia and Iowa’s match on Monday, you may haveactually discovered that Iowa got a considerable number of calls. The Hawkeyes tried 30 totallyfree tosses to the Mountaineers’ 5 throughout the videogame. That’s not a typo. Incredibly, Iowa drew 6 fouls within the last minute compared to one for West Virginia.
The variation felt so disconcerting that it even captured the eyes of Damian Lillard. Moreover, it isn’t the veryfirst time throughout the competition that fans (or coaches, for that matter) haveactually discovered the advantages host groups are getting. The weeps for neutral websites are getting louder.
Here’s what fans are stating about what they’re seeing:
I feel like West Virginia females’s group getting did bad by these refs.
— Damian Lillard (@Dame_Lillard) March 26, 2024
Are we at the point in the females’s videogame where we can h