With 17:14 left in the game, the Cats had fought their way. And forged a lead on a monster follow by Patterson. Then Gillispie was teed up. Why? For what?
Scott hits a FT. Then two treys, one by TWill, one by Scott. And the Cats are down very quickly by six, 49-43.
As things played out, it obviously didn’t turn the game around — thanks to a U of L team without even a scintilla of eye of the tiger — but it was really, uh, strange. Inopportune. Stooooooopid.
Anybody out there have a clue what happened?
– Seedy K
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I knew someone on press row during the game and texted him saying “Kellogg babbling. Why the T?”
Reply was “magic word. Bcg has been on ref the whole game”.
Bcg would be Billy Clyde Gillispie. Not sure what the word was but apparently the ref had had enough.
What’s more amazing to me was that Kellogg and CBS went to and stayed with replays with no explanation.
i can somewhat confirm that. bobby v on radio said that bcg had been on the refs for not calling a foul on a play patterson scored on.
I watched the replay several times with pauses. Patterson came cleanly through the lane and jammed a follow-up. Billy Clyde jumped up and made a hacking gesture several times, hitting his right forearm with his left. Thing is, Patterson wasn’t touched. Referee, who was on the baseline on the opposite side of the lane from the KY bench, called the T. He could not POSSIBLY have heard anything Billy Clyde said unless he reads lips and read the Magic Word but he was so far away I don’t know how. Very odd.
I think the “T” being overlooked was when BCG called the Cat’s last timeout with :58 remaining. Obviously it was hard to foresee the 10-second, 7-0 run they made to tie it, but it probably would have been nice to have that TO for the final :2.8.
Gosh, maybe he said that Cahil is a worse official than Tim Higgins. That would be far worse than saying how ugly his mother is.