Awful officiating mars ugly game

What could have been.

Gonzaga University could have been national champions, if only for, well, for a lot of things.

Things like the Zags’ 14 turnovers. Or 27.6 percent shooting after halftime. Or the 20 second-chance points the Bulldogs gave up. Or their leaders, Nigel Williams-Goss and Przemek Karnowski, combining to shoot 6 of 25 from the floor.

But the topic of conversation the day after North Carolina’s 71-65 NCAA title game victory may not have much to do with those things. Instead, it will be about a second half marred by … well, there is no easy way to put this.

It was marred by awful officiating/SR. More here.