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5-2 final. Huge win. Perhaps we're peaking right at the right time to make a serious run in the NCAA tournament
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5-2 final. Huge win. Perhaps we're peaking right at the right time to make a serious run in the NCAA tournament
The most common way would be that you take a bathroom break but instead of going to the bathroom quickly, you sit in the bathroom for awhile to rest (or don’t use the bathroom at all). Bathroom breaks are frequently abused by people who just need a break and it’s very hard to police that because obviously, nobody is in the stall with you). So it’s pretty remarkable that the officials felt confident enough to say for certain that he misused the bathroom break, and then I’m guessing something else must have happened to escalate things to a default. Most likely would be that he severely cursed out the officials, but that’s just speculation.
They’re timed—you get up to 5 minutes—but that doesn’t mean you are entitled to take the whole 5 minutes if it doesn’t actually take you that long to use the bathroom. Also you have to actually use the bathroom, you can’t just take a seat on the toilet and chill for five minutes. So it’s harder to abuse them, but they can still be abused.
Do they have a bathroom monitor to make sure you’re not just sitting there?
Probably not going to happen, but I'd love to hear Bresky weigh in on what actually happened. I watched UVA-UNC yesterday and I think we definitely could have won. I did get a report from a UNC fan who was texting with people on site, and his version was that Nava took a bathroom break but didn't go to the bathroom, he just wanted to cool his opponent down. Now, I'd love to know what he actually did, and how he got caught, unless he didn't know the rule. I'm also shocked that is an auto default and not a game penalty. Ben S. has been playing terrible, so I gotta feel like we would have won the 3rd but who knows. We still had so many chances. Henri and Rezi up breaks in the 3rd. Henri with 3 mps in a row on Rinky's serve at 5-6. Henri serving 5-3 in TB. Rezi with 2 mps in TB after being up 3-1. Gotta find a way to win 1 of those.
So true. We had so many chances to win that match.