April 8, 2015
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S ports
Police
Reform Panel
C ontinued from P age 3
told her she should learn to
speak English. She explains
that now she is unlikely to
call an officer when she has a
problem.
The community will have
another opportunity to express
their concerns at the next over-
sight board meeting, which
is scheduled to for Thursday,
April 9 at 5:30 p.m. at the
Montavilla United Methodist
Church Fellowship Hall, 232
S.E. 80th Ave.
Duke players celebrate after winning the NCAA men’s basketball cham-
pionship Monday night against Wisconsin in Indianapolis. (AP photo)
Duke gets physical
to Doom Badgers
Wisconsin hurt
by fouls in
NCAA final
(AP) -- No team in the country
was better this season at avoiding
fouls than Wisconsin, and in the
first half of the national title game
against Duke the Badgers were
playing as clean as ever.
But after getting whistled for
two fouls in the first half, Wis-
consin got called for 13 in the
second, more than its per game
average of 12.7.
Duke played a physical game
on both ends to beat the Badgers
68-63 to win the national champi-
onship on Monday night.
Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan
tried to avoid going off on the of-
ficials after the game, though at
one point in the second half, he
called a timeout to give them a
piece of his mind.
“It was a situation where you
just have to be able to handle
all the hands and the checking,”
Ryan said in postgame interview
with CBS. “There was more body
contact in this game than any
game we played all year, and I
just felt sorry for my guys that all
of a sudden a game was like that.
I think they are struggling with
that a little bit.”
Later asked directly about the
officiating, Ryan shied away just
a bit.
“You can’t say anything about
the officiating,” he said. “C’mon.
Are you trying to set me up?”
He added: “We practice in our
practices where if an offensive
player jumps into you, we always
call it on the offensive player. It’s
just what we do. So there were
some situations where obviously
our guys felt they were in posi-
tion. I’m sure they felt they were
in the rights. Both teams are al-
ways going to feel that there’s a
question or two. So it’s just the
way the game’s played.”
Wisconsin also was hurt by
a call late in the game when the
officials ruled the ball went off
a Badger player, but replays
showed the ball going off the fin-
gertip of a Blue Devil.
Duke dealt with foul trouble
most of the night. Star freshman
Jahlil Okafor finished the game
with four fouls and played only
22 minutes. Justise Winslow also
was limited and finished with
four fouls.
Overall, though, Wisconsin
shot only 10 free throws, making
six. Duke went 16 for 20, 12 for
16 at the line.
“They got to the line and
scored with the clock stopped,”
Wisconsin forward Sam Dekker
said. “It’s all they did in the sec-
ond half was make free throws.
You can’t come back if they’re
scoring with the clock stopped.”
Wisconsin’s offense has been
the most efficient in the country
this season in points per posses-
sion, but the Badgers sputtered
down the stretch, bouncing off
the Blue Devils. And on defense,
they just couldn’t stop the whis-
tles.
“We are a team with a lot of
pride in what we do and we don’t
want to blame outside factors or
other things,” Nigel Hayes said.
“I guess we just got a little too
much contact on a lot of their
drivers. We just maybe did a poor
job of sliding our feet.”