Nicole Auerbach on Twitter: "Postgame comment from referee Lisa Jones, asked by pool reporter about the technical foul called on Caitlin Clark:
Nicole Auerbach on Twitter: "Postgame comment from referee Lisa Jones, asked by pool reporter about the technical foul called on Caitlin Clark: The official who was wrong gave an erroneous explanation for assessing a technical foul on Clark. She gave no explanation why she did not assess any of numerous technical bench fouls on Kim Mulkey, including for hand wrestling and pushing a referee and stepping onto the court and well outside the coaching box. It looked like a WWE fight. Reminded me of hockey fights I witnessed in the 1980s when the refs would come over to the fight, stop and observe it for the first minute, and then intervene.
When Mulkey is physically handfighting then pushing a referee the ref runs and calls no foul. And no technical foul on the photo below. When Clark on a dead ball situation bounces the ball behind her back to where a referee ordinarily stands behind the endline, who is out of position -- that's a technical foul???? The referee should go back to middle school ball.
One referee made the entire officiating crew into clowns.
When my little sister played for the Hawkeyes in the 1970s/80s they might draw 200-300 fans, tops. Forty-Five years later there has been much progress, and Caitlin keeps talking about growing the game. But you have a stinking referee who appears to take sides.
By the 4th quarter there were 3 Iowa players who could not play fulsome defense with four fouls; Clark could not drive the basket due to four fouls. When Clark was erroneously assessed a technical Iowa was on a run, that ended when Clark was assessed 4th.
LSU has some good performances; Iowa's two stars were stymied by officiating. A significant side show was put on by one referee who has entered into a national discussion on Twitter, but on almost every news site, and sports news site.
