Hilarious quote from Ryan Appleby after finding out the shot came too late.
“From where I was sitting, if I was the ref, I would have called it good,” said UW guard Ryan Appleby.
Replay and evidence be damned. To be fair, I think he was referring to the initial call. Not actually that the refs should have called it for the Huskies on replay.
No Huskies strongly disagreed. No one said they were robbed. But that didn’t stop the sting.
“It’s like somebody stepping on your chest,” Dentmon said. “You figure that you’ve done something good, and you’re happy. The moment they take it away it’s like everything went bad – everything.”
The Huskies did make progress from where they had been, even as they fell short and are in deep s**t with regards to making the NCAA. There was the claim that UW made defensive progress. Afterall, Pitt didn’t finish with 50%+ shooting. Reality was something different. Pitt started out with poor, poor shooting — 7-25 — but then hit 7-8 to finish the half. Plus Pitt shot nearly 61% in the second half (14-23).
Obviously that replay was the dominating theme of stories on the game.