With only 1:30 left in the fourth quarter, St. Johns was up one point over Rutgers in the first round of the Big East Tournament. As the game started to wind down and get closer and closer, the refs really started to miss calls for both sides. They missed three crucial foul calls that would have given Rutgers the ball back and a chance to win the game. With just four seconds left in the game, Rutgers inbounded the ball and threw it across the court were the player from Rutgers was clearly fouled and the ball was turned over to St. Johns. But following this missed call, the refs missed yet another crucial call when the St. Johns player traveled, stepped out of bounds, and threw the ball into the stands all with 1.7 seconds left on the clock. The refs didn't even acknowledge this happened and ended the game with St. Johns winning by two points.
The refs clearly blew this game for Rutgers. With all of the blown calls, I could have seen Rutgers winning by at least four points. Once again, St. Johns pulled off another close win and will go up against Syracuse on the next round.
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