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All Ball: Referee, Horrible Call Give UCLA Bruins Win and Pac-10 Title, Robbing Stanford
SportsHubLA — ... Instead of UCLA taking the ball out near Stanford’s basket with two-plus ticks on the clock, and potentially, a sensational ending, we get Darren Collison — a guy who hits free throws the way Tripp Isenhour hits birds — going to the line to get the Bruins to overtime. John Wilner of College Hotline summed it up well: It was a terrific defensive play by Hill. He went straight up, and there was only minor forearm-to-forearm contact. Nothing on the hand or the body. It should have been a no-call, obviously. Instead, the All-American went to the line, drained two to force ...

Did Stanford get hosed?
Sports Scope — ... :"That foul call on a clean Lawrence Hill block of Darren Collison’s lay-up attempt with 2.5 left at Pauley Pavilion was awful. ... Most of all, it was a whistle that should've never been blown because the call was made by the side official, who was blocked out by traffic." Jon Wilner of the Mercury News agrees with his co-worker :"It should have been a no-call, obviously. Instead, the All-American went to the line, drained two to force overtime, and the Bruins rolled. When the whistle was blown -- by an official who was behind the play -- gotta point that out -- I thought ...