BIG BIG GUY, BIG BAD CALL?

Don’t look now but there is some lingering controversy left over from the weekend, and it’s centered around the two best college players in the country. The more you watch it, the more it seems the refs blew the end of the Xavier/Ohio State game. Greg Oden commits a hard foul http://ohio-state-basketball.aolsportsblog.com/forward/854959/ that certainly could have been called a flagrant or intentional foul. CBS tried to apologize for the call, saying Oden was going for the ball. Yes, he was...just like Gerald Henderson.

Look, we aren’t conspiracy folks, but it does seem that the favorites get the calls at times...So you decide. Yes, the players are big and fast and it's hard to see everything, but...It's almost like the umpires who called strikes on any Nolan Ryan pitch that was close to the strike zone. They readily admitted that it was going too fast to see, but they relied on the simple fact that it “sounded like a strike.”

If called properly, Xavier gets 2 shots and the ball. Game Over. Oden even said: “"I just look at that foul as, they're going to call bull crap fouls I might as well get one that's hard." Conversely, Jay Bilas said the kid took “a flop.” Huh? He got pushed by a guy that's bigger than a Yugo. Don’t tell us Jay Killus has gone all establishment?