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Article: SPORTSDAY Knight: Refs robbed MU
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- March 25, 2009
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If you ask former coach Bob Knight, the referees robbed Marquette
on Sunday in the closing moments of its second-round loss to
Missouri in the NCAA basketball tournament.
Knight was asked Tuesday on ESPN Radio what he would have said to
Lazar Hayward, if he was Hayward's coach, at the end of the game.
With 5.5 seconds left and his team down by two points, Hayward
attempted to inbound the ball but stepped over the baseline before
he could deliver a pass to a teammate, thus turning the ball over to
Missouri.
"I would have probably really been upset about the call before
that happened," Knight said. "I thought there was a definite mistake
in the call on the block-charge right before that that ...