At the end of Friday night’s Women’s Final Four showdown between the UConn Huskies and the Iowa Hawkeyes, UConn forward Aaliyah Edwards was called for a controversial offensive foul on the Huskies’ final possession of the game, preventing the team from even getting a shot off. But Uconn legend Rebecca Lobo doesn’t think it was even questionable.
Rebecca Lobo played for the Uconn Huskies in college where she led the team to a national championship with an undefeated 35-0 record while earning unanimous National Player of the Year honors. But even despite her UConn connection, she surprisingly thought it was an obvious foul on Edwards.
“Of course it’s tough to see, right, in the moment,” Lobo said Saturday on SportsCenter according to On3. “And at an end of a game, you want to see players with a missed shot or a made shot or a defensive stop deciding the game. When you watch the play back, it 100% was a foul. Aaliyah Edwards, not only with the wide base, she was moving. She hits Gabbie Marshall in a way that she can’t recover defensively.
“It’s unfortunate that this game came down to an off-the-ball foul call, but if you had that foul call at any other point in the game, you wouldn’t give it a second thought. You would not question it at all. I understand why people are because of the timing of it, but Jay, this 100% – by the rules of basketball – is an illegal screen. It’s a foul.”
As a result of the offensive foul, the Hawkeyes got the ball back and were able to seal the game.
[On3]
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