Redbirds vs. Stanford

[PantherSigEp]

The timeout was the one I thought was a bad miss, especially since Stanford then scored to go up by a possession and that pretty much changed the flow of the game from there on out. The Redbirds should've had the last possession needing a bucket to tie and a 3 to win OR Stanford would've been forced to make a shot for the win on the last possession and we could've been looking at another OT.

All in all it was a very fun game to watch, unfortunate to see ISU lose but in the 2nd half their shot selection at times left was questionable. I understand that you do not play to not lose and they had been shooting the 3 at an unbelievable percentage, but they threw up too many bad looks instead of making an extra pass or two and working for a higher percentage shot. Just my observation. Clearly the better team but between shot selection, defense and I don't know how many TO's ISU averages but 17 of them sure didn't help any.

[Redbirdfan21]

The ref who made the majority if the awful calls, Dwayne Allen, (especially the TO out of bounds call) has now officiated 2 career college basketball games. Really NCAA/NIT?!?!?!?!?! You couldn't get any better??????

[ihsi]

The ref who made the majority if the awful calls, Dwayne Allen, (especially the TO out of bounds call) has now officiated 2 career college basketball games. Really NCAA/NIT?!?!?!?!?! You couldn't get any better??????

That sucks for sure, but it's no surprise as all the good refs are being held by the NCAA for the big tournament.

[kramer33]

I agree with PantherSigEp. Shot selection and turnovers after the Redbirds had an 11 point lead didn't help. I did not like the TO call at all. The baseline was questionable and I didn't like the ref was only looking down.

Really good run for ISU to end the season and hopefully leads to confidence and even better play for next year.

[glm38]

Kind of hard to believe all MVC basketball is done for the year. Heck of a year with lots of wild twists and upsets. I thought we would show better in the post season tournaments though.

Ill State should be the class of the MVC next year along with CU. Hopefully one of those 2 will break into the sweet 16 next year.