The end of the Wisconsin Badgers/Iowa Hawkeyes game on Sunday was an embarrassment to any fan of good, free-flowing basketball. The officials called terrible fouls, went to video review multiple times and caused the last minute of the game to take over 20 minutes of real time to play. Sure Wisconsin is probably upset because they lost to Iowa, but even Iowa fans didn’t like the officiating and neutral observers also chimed in with their distaste over how the game was called.
In a, quite frankly, stunning turn of events, Wisconsin head coach absolutely went off on Big Ten officials in his post-game media availability, even going so far as to welcome a call from the Big Ten offices saying “they have my number.