You can always complain about the officiating after any game, whether it be in the Final Four, Super Bowl or your second-grader’s T-ball league. But the refereeing has been especially bad during the 2015 NCAA tournament and reached a crescendo on Saturday night.

Luckily, none of the calls can be viewed in retrospect as winning or losing the game for either team. For as bad as the officiating was in the game, at least these bad calls were of the equal opportunity type.

We could go through them all, from the unbelievable charge call on Josh Gasser who was five feet away from the ball, to the numerous out of bounds calls that should have gone the other way (none of which TBS aired, for some reason), to Kentucky shooting two back-to-back layups with most of Madison on their backs and not getting a call to a clear Wisconsin flop. Everyone was getting whistles. We could keep going, but let’s focus on two instead.

1. Trey Lyles decks Josh Gasser.

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Don’t get it twisted because of the apologists sitting in the TBS booth, especially Grant Hill, who never met a college basketball he could or would criticize: This wasn’t just a flagrant 1 foul, it was flagrant 2. Here’s the definition of the latter:

“Illegal contact caused by the swinging of the elbow(s) that occurs above or below the shoulders of an opponent is a common, flagrant 1 or flagrant 2 personal foul. A flagrant 2 personal foul is a personal foul that involves contact with an opponent that is not only excessive, but also severe or extreme while the ball is live.”

How is that anything BUT a flagrant 2? Lyles basically punches Gasser in the face for no reason. It was excessive, extreme, over the shoulders and the ball was live. So what did the refs decide after going to the monitor?

NO FOUL AT ALL. This is one of the most inexplicable refereeing decisions you’ll ever see, even if you watched the Tuck Rule game.

2. Wisconsin scores with zero seconds on the shot clock.

This one was more important to the final result. With 2:35 left, time was running down on a wild Wisconsin possession. There were two missed shots, two clean blocks and then, Nigel Hayes getting two points off his own rebound when there was no time on the shot clock. Originally the TBS truck thought it was called a shot-clock violation, as did most of Americans outside Kentucky. They kept the score at 60-58, Kentucky. But then the score changed to 60-60 because the network was told that were was no violation, despite the fact that Hayes was clearly, even in real-time, holding the ball with 0 on the shot clock. The worst part is Kentucky was 41 seconds away from having that play become reviewable as refs can only go to the monitor with under two minutes. (I dislike all replay except for tennis’s Hawkeye. But if you’re going to review calls under two minutes, why not make it five in the tournament. The games count more.) The bucket counted and the game was tied.

Kentucky would never lead again. Still, we’re going to call it a wash. Trey Lyles should have been ejected and the bucket shouldn’t have counted. But when you lose by seven, there aren’t any real excuses, Kentucky.