Game turning into a FT competition.

AZ three pointer puts them up two with 53 seconds left. UCD takes a TO to talk things over.

A miss by each team and a block by Shorts. AZ ball with 17 secs, up two.

70-68 final after a last second shot by Davis misses.

Crap...Ags played great in the second half. Tj was unbelievable but it would be nice to win one of these games. Think Siler needed to get it back to tj for the last shot. But still a great effort

Man wish TJ had it at the end.

Great game by the Ags...close but no cigar...bummer. Lots of players contributed tonight. I thought this was the best I've ever seen Garrison Goode play and Damion Squire is getting better all the time. Good minutes from Neufeld too. Hope we get Gonzalez and AJ back before the conference starts. Only 8 TO's and we shot 51% from the field...poor FT shooting hurt though...

Yeah..that last possession by the Ags really fizzled.

Call the time outtttt

This team is inexplicable.

I agree I’m surprised he didn’t call a time out at the end. Great effort by Goode and squire. We should give LMU and USC good games

Befuddling? :wink:

The Ags lost this game from the free throw line. Had they made just 3 more foul shots, but Arizona played solid defense at the end, denying TJ the ball and covering him better than they had earlier. Still, give UC Davis credit, They sure put a scare into the UofA crowd. Great game guys.

Man, the Pac-12 is awful.

Good thing we have USC coming up.

Great effort. Very poised throughout. Great to see contributions from so many guys. TJ is a hell of a player. This would have been a great victory for the program

"I am proud of this group with the way they played and the way they fought. If this team continues to work like this and battle, possession-by-possession, we are going to have a lot of fun in the second half of the season," Les added.

https://ucdavisaggies.com/news/2018/12/22/mens-basketball-three-game-trip-opens-with-a-thriller-in-tucson.aspx

Here's what Les said about not calling a TO in the final 17 seconds:

“We talked in the prior (timeout). We didn’t quite execute what we talked about,” he said. “I (wanted) to not get their defense set and load up. … I liked us going, we just didn’t quite get done what we needed to get done.

https://www.davisenterprise.com/sports/aggie-men-give-arizona-all-it-can-handle-in-70-68-loss/

it’s a judgement call for the coach and he surely knows his team better than anyone. It’s just unfortunate that the ball wasnt in TJs hands for the last shot.

I like the idea of not letting them get set on defense if we would have taken a TO. When they stopped TJ, though, nothing seemed to develop after that. Siler tried to improvise by driving the ball down the lane but got bottled up. I would like to have seen TJ call a TO when it was apparent that whatever the Ags were trying to do wasn't happening. No right or wrong call by anybody...just tough basketball in the final seconds...

Did I read correctly that Shorts had two alley opp dunks, each to open a half? If yes ... we need the highlights!

alley oop layups

Marsh said on the radio broadcast that TJ did indeed attempt to call a TO, but the ref didn't see it

Well that was too bad.

I almost forgot about one call the refs made that I've never seen before. It was when one ref called a offensive charge on an Arizona player and the ref under the basket called a block on the Aggie defender. After the refs huddled they called a foul on each player. How in the world can you have a charging foul and a blocking foul at the same time? Crazy...I've never seen that before.

that was crazy but apparently the right call. One ref had charge the other block, so double foul. Never saw that before

I think it goes to show just how subjective the charge/block foul is also. Those calls drive coaches and fans crazy!

That makes no sense.

I agree, it doesn't make sense at all!

Here is a pretty good write up on the "Blarge" call (simultaneously called Blocking and Charging). I've never seen it called before, mostly because the trailing official is taught to hold his call until the lead official makes the call.

In the CCA Men’s Basketball Officiating Manual, 2008‐2009, Section 1.1 Block/Charge Calls p. 20 and Section 1.2 Drives to the Basket p. 21, jurisdiction to determine this call is levied upon the Lead official to have primary coverage if the contact occurs within the Free Throw Lane Lines; however, if case of double whistles, the outside official may take this call as he might have the best look.

Hence, there might be an indeterminate time frame where one official may call and signal “Block” while the other official calls and signals “Charge” nearly simultaneously. Hence, a “BLARGE” may result.

A Blarge is a Double Foul and must be processed as such. It would be incorrect to allow one
official’s call to override or set aside the others