What I did not understand — AFTER the blown TO call — is why State didn’t start fouling immediately to get Miami shooting 1-and-1’s with, what, 35 seconds left? We had a foul to give, after which the next three fouls would have been high-anxiety for a Miami team not known for good free-throw shooting.
Instead, we let them hold the ball and run their offense, and guess what? They scored on a dunk, which was hardly a surprise the way they’d been carving us up inside.
My thought is that KK was so mad about the TO call that he stormed off in the wrong direction, lost his focus and forgot what the time and foul situation was. Fouling was textbook in that situation.
Had we fouled, Jimmy V style, we’d have had 3 more possessions at least. Instead, after the dunk, we had one.