Ron groover referee
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The Art of Officiating with Joe Forte
Joe has a discussion with a NBA Crew Chief - David Guthrie about some of the difference's between the college and NBA game/mentality.
"David Guthrie has officiated 954 regular-season games in 17 seasons as an NBA staff official. He has also worked 85 playoff games, including eight NBA Finals games. Guthrie was part of the officiating crew for the 2019 NBA All-Star Game in his current hometown of Charlotte, N.C.
He considers his most memorable NBA assignment to be his first NBA Finals: Game 2 of the 2018 Finals between the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Golden State Warriors.
Before joining the NBA, Guthrie officiated in the NBA G League and the Continental Basketball Association. He refereed the NBA G League playoffs from 2003-05 and the NBA G League Finals in 2004 and 2005.
Guthrie has collegiate officiating experience in several conferences, including the ACC and SEC. He worked the 2003 and 2004 NCAA Tournaments.
Guthrie played minor league baseball in the Cincinnati Reds’ organization, with stints in Princeton, W. Va.; Billings, Mont.;
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Which refs do college basketball coaches most, least like to see in a big game? ‘I love me some Teddy’
At the behest of St. John’s coach Lou Carnesecca, Big East supervisor of officials Art Hyland once arrived at the league’s annual coaches’ meetings with a picture book. Inside were headshots of each of the Big East’s officials, created to help the notoriously bad with names Carnesecca properly assign his grievances. “I didn’t know what they looked like,’’ Carnesecca says. “But I knew I didn’t like them.’’
That was nearly 40 years ago and suffice it to say, not much has changed. Which is why The Athletic decided to survey coaches about the opinions usually shared behind closed doors. The NCAA frowns upon (and fines) such honest discourse in public, so the coaches were offered the veil of anonymity in exchange for the answers to two very simple questions.
Which officials do you like to see call your games, and why? Which are you less than thrilled to see when you step onto the court, and why? Nearly 40 head coaches answered.
Let’s face it. The dynamics between officials and c
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2010 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament
Edition of USA college basketball tournament
The 2010 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament involved 65 teams playing in a single-elimination tournament that determined the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I men's basketball national champion for the 2009–10 basketball season. The 72nd annual edition of the tournament began on March 16, 2010, and concluded with the championship game on April 5, at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana.
The Final Four consisted of Duke, making their first appearance since 2004, West Virginia, who were making their second appearance and first since 1959, Butler, considered the host school and making their first ever appearance, and Michigan State, the national runner-up from 2009 appearing in the Final Four for the sixth time under head coach Tom Izzo.
When Duke and Butler played each other in the tournament final, it was the first title game between private universities in 25 years (Villanova and Georgetown met in 1985), and the fifth such match-up in hist
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