Bring out the gimp.

I'm going to preface this by saying that I didn't get to see all of the Illinois-Washington game. I'm also no great fan of Illinois.

However, during the (significant) chunk of the game that I did see, it was very apparent that Illinois was getting royally fucked by the officiating. UW was in the double-bonus with more than nine minutes left to go in the game, and Illinois had two guys with four fouls around the same time. Total fouls for the game were 28-17, and Washington shot 39 free throws compared to Illinois' 11.

Washington had TWO individual players who each shot more free throws than the Illinois team did.

That was just enough to overcome Illinois making eight more field goals, grabbing three more rebounds, and dishing out almost twice as many assists (15 vs. 8) as Washington.

Illinois should have just played the second half with a ball gag in their mouths.

What a total fucking joke.

Almost as bad (at least on a much shorter-term basis) was the completely flagrant shove in the back on the final inbounds play in the LSU-A&M game. An LSU player knocked A&M's best player to the floor right in front of the official... no call.

With A&M down one, they should have been shooting a 1-and-1 with a chance to tie or take the lead. Instead... they got hosed.