Inside the box score: NCSU 84, FSU 74

Outside of the officials rewinding the game clock so the Russians could beat Team USA in the 1972 Olympics, has there been a worse reffed gamed in the history of sports? I don’t know. Many people are saying... When Ted Valentine is hands-down the best ref on the floor, there’s a problem. The FSU fanbase feels screwed, and they’re right. The NC State fanbase feels screwed, and they’re right. In a year in which the NCAA’s offseason focus was on making a more free-flowing, pro-style game, the results have been awful. This one lasted 2:35 just in regulation. The college basketball product is really bad right now, the undertrained refs have no idea what to do about it, and the NCAA is devoid of any real leadership. They’re too busy trying to figure out how to ruin March Madness in a way that results in more advertising dollars. To the game!

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