A different angle on the controversial foul call against college star Aliyah Edwards in the final minutes of the Huskies’ Final Four loss to Iowa has led some to believe the whistle was deserved.
With UW leading Iowa State 70-69 with 3.9 seconds left, Edwards was called for a moving screen by Hawkeyes guard Gabby Marshall, and the team forced a final shot on star guard Paige Bueckers. I was about to hit it.
Some viewers initially thought this was a terrible call, not only to get on stage with Kaitlyn Clark, but to put her on the brink of a March Madness championship matchup against a South Carolina team led by Dawn Staley. considered it a grave injustice to the UConn team. .
Iowa State won 71-69 and advanced to the title game for the second straight year.
However, the tide began to change late Friday night when a new angle of the video went viral on social media.
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CBS college basketball analyst Seth Davis I tweeted a quote from X’s video. Focus on defending against foul calls.
“Not just textbooks. Obvious. Clear. Not even a question,” Davis wrote.
“And I was one of those who thought it was a bad call at first because I only saw the near/upper body responses. This isn’t even an argument. It was. A. Foul.”
Dave Portnoy, founder of Barstool I posted a GIF of this angleand wrote, “Anyone who says this is not a foul doesn’t know ball.”
Marshall agreed with that assessment; tell the reporter After the game, she “could tell it was a moving screen.”
UW coach Geno Auriemma believed he should have been called there.
Auriemma said after the game, “Every time we have the ball there’s a potential for an illegal screen call.” “All I know is that we had three or four of them called, but I don’t think any of them were called.”
Talk to reporters after the gameBookers had no interest in using the phone call as an excuse.
“Anyone can make a big deal out of that one play, but one play doesn’t win or lose a basketball game,” Bakkers said.
“There were a lot of mistakes that I made that might not have been that big of a deal and wouldn’t have even caused the game.
We can look at one play and say, “That play killed us,” or “That hurt us,” but we should have done a better job — and I should have done better. He should have done his job – in terms of not leaving the game unattended. Leaving the game up to chance like that, letting one bad call go in our direction, and then deciding it. So, yeah, it may have been a difficult decision for us, but I also think we could have done better in terms of preventing it. ”
