We even had one time today when the BC defender jumped ahead of the Pitt player and literally took the hand off and went the other way for a layup.
We do that all the time, and I don't get what it accomplishes, other than sometimes it gets a player pinned to the sideline in a double team. Which, I assume, is not the goal.
I would also say that the officials today were bad. Really, really bad. Early in the game it seemed as if Pitt was actually getting the benefit of a few questionable calls. But as the game went on it surely swung the other way. For those who didn't watch, Verdi got called for a technical late in the game (BC's last two points). He just couldn't take it any more, and he let the refs have it for probably a minute or more straight before they gave him the T. Which I think says a lot, because normally the refs absolutely would not allow a coach to go on the way he did for anywhere near as long as he did before giving the coach a technical.
On several of the calls the game announcers basically said that the refs got the calls wrong. Which certainly doesn't happen often, but they were bad enough that they couldn't be ignored.
Besides turnovers, the other thing that killed Pitt was the defensive glass. BC got 19 offensive rebounds, which they turned into 22 second chance points. I think that some of the Pitt men's players look for someone to box out rather than just go get the ball too often, but the women's players are the opposite. No one ever looks for someone to box out. They just turn to the basket and stand there and wait for the ball to come to them. And sometimes it does, but when it doesn't they don't get it.
Well, that's a little unfair. King goes and gets the ball. But she's the only one. The rest of them wait for the ball to come to them. Which is why they aren't good rebounders.
And something I've mentioned before, this team is so, so bad passing the ball into the post. There were a couple times today when they actually had someone in great position in the post, had the defender on their hip, all they needed was a good pass to the right spot to get a layup (or a foul, or both). And time after time we refuse to throw the pass. But then other times we've got people who simply are not open, where you have to make an absolutely perfect pass to get them the ball, and even then they aren't going to be in good scoring position if they do get it, and we throw the pass anyway. And usually it gets picked off.