Hoopla, I agree about the REFS' role in the last 1:40 of the game.
The REFS for the entire game let Wofford bang and push into the Paladin defender game as a whole (inside). These weren't called either way. Then, under 2 minutes, Wofford's guards drove to the basket. Our defenders, as they should, bodied up on the Wofford player. They called a foul on Furman every single time. At least two of those times, the Wofford player moved into a standing still Furman player and still got the call (Johnston's foul really stood out as a huh).
On our end, as we drove to the basketball, Wofford was just a physical, IMO more so using a lot of hands on any Furman player slashing to the basket - no calls.
I have a theory - I was coached that the physical team gets the calls late. Furman doesn't bang into the defender like Wofford does - they were rewarded for this in the closing minutes. Furman slashed more to the basket when Wofford late was given the benefit of the no-call unless it was blatantly obvious.
The last thing I will say about the no calls: Ben took a wicked shot (no call), and Furman's trainer had to repeatedly work on Ben's nose during the timeouts to stop the bleeding. Wofford's goon also took a shot at PJ's head late as PJ was trying to break to get outside to catch a pass - the refs were blind to it.
