It looks like a case of he said-he said on the collision between UK’s Ramel Bradley and Georgia’s Albert Jackson at the end of their SEC Tournament game.
Jackson said that Bradley was falling (trying to enduce a foul call) before contact was made.
But Bradley saw it differently.
“I really didn’t help him at all,” the UK guard said. “He was like 300 pounds. He was like all muscle coming at me.”
The non-call sealed Kentucky’s fate. Georgia won 60-56 in overtime.
“The referee didn’t make the call,” Bradley said on Wednesday in Anaheim as UK prepared for the NCAA Tournament. “That’s the way the game went.”
Such people as national officiating coordinator Hank Nichols and former Coach Eddie Fogler said such a call is seldom made.
When asked if he expected a call on Jackson, Bradley said, “I just thought a foul was a foul.”
Jerry Tipton of the Lexington Herald- Leader has covered Kentucky basketball since the 1981-82 season. That time includes five coaches, five Final Fours, four athletic directors, two interim athletic directors and many memories. Before coming to Lexington, Tipton worked eight years for the Huntington (W.Va.) Herald-Dispatch. He covered Marshall’s basketball team for two seasons before coming to the Herald-Leader.
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