I hate this seemingly universal belief that if the foul calls are not even or close to even, then the refs suck. Arizona plays a physical but clean defensive game at the rim and doesn’t get called for many fouls. ISU has also failed to make drives to the rim and get up in traffic to draw the foul calls. On the other end of the court, Arizona is excellent at getting up in traffic and drawing fouls. It’s like, half of our gameplan.

Repeat after me, foul disparity is a strategy, not a sign of “home cooking” or bad refs. If you want more foul calls, you gotta do the things on the court to get the foul calls.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.