MVC Week 8

[BEARZ77]

Side bar to this[ and I'm not inferring there was anything other than typical home court cooking happening with Drake/Bradley] but I read a recent report about the NBA official who got fired for betting on games he officiated. They were never able to prove he did anything but bet, and the NBA was adamant that there was no way to throw games because of all the scrutiny[ obviously they were very much wanting to hold up the games integrity]. But in this article it made it clear he had impacted games and it was actually pretty easy . Remember, for gambling purposes [ which would be the whole issue in fixing games] you don't have to alter who wins or loses , just the outcome vs the betting line. Because of the amount of points scored and the way in which they are, basketball is a very easy game to impact most games by +/- 6 points. And the simple way you do it is with fouls. In most sports you can make all the calls you want one way or the other, and it still doesn't guarantee scoring, but in basketball where you can reasonably predict a 65%-75% rate of return in points on foul calls it's not that hard at all. The article also listed how calling fouls on specific players early could of course impact things, and how a respected official in working with his crew could plant a perspective in their minds prior to a game, like " this team likes to use a lot of high screening action but have a tendency to be moving, so let's stay on top of that" etc. But the main thing I got from the article was how very, very, easy it is to not be detected , to even grade out high for games, and yet be actively fixing games as a basketball official simply by how you manipulated foul calls. It was initially reported that the issue with the NBA official was short- term, but it turned out it was for 4 years running with billions of dollars having been bet in his games by gambling syndicates who had inside knowledge of what he was doing.

[chitown fanatic]

Bradley fan here,

I am 55 and I am not sure I remember seeing posters on the Bradley forums as upset with refs in my life. So, I am sure it was bad.

I did not watch the game (happy about that)

I just wanted to say. Drake must be back. It seems like Drake and Bradley fans have been pretty cordial for quite a while. Things have changed now. I hope Bradley and Drake can be rivals competing with a couple others for the top in coming years.

Agreed. I kind of like this 24 hour old Drake/Bradley thing.

24 hour?? We play them each and almost every year in St. Louis...its tradition at this point

[sivert]

Go Panthers!! Game time @MSU!

[Go4Valley]

Damn ESPN plus app not working right now

[MSUDuo]

Getting punked by the refs and UNI in our own house.

Just weren't ready to wear the target.

[NuncEstBibendum]

Getting punked by the refs

Here we go again.

[MSUDuo]

Getting punked by the refs

Here we go again.

Not even worth the discussion tonight. It was beyond terrible.

Onward and upward

[MNPanthers]

Lol MSU lost this game on their own and if you can't see that then I'm sorry you're just in denial. Booo hoooo. Several missed calls that could have gone UNIs way too

[MoValleyFan]

Must be the Iowa mafia talking with the Refs ....

Doesn't help that MSU shot 30% from the floor and 11% from 3 point ...just sayin

[MNPanthers]

29.6 FG%, 2-18 on 3 pointers, 50% on FT. None of those stats had to do with the refs. You would have lost to any valley team with those stats by a wide margin