Off the cuff: I certainly don't want people to go to their houses or otherwise threaten them but I do think fans need to know who officiated that Wake Forest game for future reference at least. Eric Lewis, Bill Covington, Jr. and Ron Groover.

Without going back over the game film, my initial thoughts are that of the three, Covington missed the most calls. At one point, UNC's RJ Davis was fouled and the ball went off Wake's Omaha Biliew yet not only didn't he call the foul but he gave the ball out of bounds to Wake Forest.

The style of play certainly made the game ugly, helping the Deacons while stifling Carolina's flowing offense and their efforts to drive to the hoop to draw fouls. I don't know why some officials call every little thing while others call nothing but these officials called a poor game - losing control and affecting the game.

The players have to adjust to the way the game is being called but it would have been a much better game to watch if the obvious calls had been made.

I know there were Carolina fouls not called but, looking through Carolina Blue eyes, I want to point out just two other calls that hurt the Tar Heels.

First, Seth Trimble drove in the lane and was literally knocked backward to the floor and nothing was called. Then, with just 7:19 to go and the heels up by just one, Ven-Allen Lubin had his arm pulled down as he was driving the lane for a would-be bucket. That's when the entire Carolina bench erupted with Assistant Coach Brad Frederick picking up a technical (at least I think it was on him). Subsequent free throws put Wake ahead.

It wasn't just that calls were or weren't made, it was about inconsistency within the game. For the first eight and a half minutes of the second half, there were very few calls made and frustrations grew. During this time, there were three free throws - all by Wake Forest. Then, over the next eight and a half minutes there was call after call - some obvious, some not - and there were 24 free throws.

Of course, ESPN announcer Cory Alexander, who is the worst and most talkative college basketball analyst there is, sided with the officials.

Amazingly, after a scrum where there were three or four fouls committed before one was called, he said, "I love the consistently that the officials are calling this game. They are allowing it to be a physical game on both ends of the floor. You see that there's contact on these plays however they are not going to be the deciding factor. They are going to let the players figure it out on the floor."

Figure it out on the floor? He said this with less than 10 minutes to go. They should have figured it out by then but they hadn't because the officials weren't consistent.

In contrast, in the previous ACC Tournament game against Notre Dame there were 27 fouls called and 29 free throw shots while in this game there were 35 fouls called and 47 free throw attempts.

It certainly was a more physical game but it didn't necessarily have to be if the officials had called appropriate, i.e. obvious, fouls throughout.

During a time when the officials tried to get control of the game, they called a double foul on UNC's Cadeau and Wake Hildreth. It didn't help to calm things down and it saddled Cadeau with his fourth foul so it hurt Carolina worse.

For his part, the loquacious, non-deep thinker Cory Alexander said, "You see they got locked up - I like the double foul call. Both guys trying to be aggressive. That's the right call. Bill Covington right on top of it."

Ridiculous. Perhaps Cadeau said something, I don't know, but the replay showed Hildreth backing Cadeau into another Wake player and putting his forearm across Cadeau's neck while Cadeau was putting both hands up in the air. That should have been a foul on Hildreth, not Cadeau.

In addition to the foul calls, the officials missed several traveling and palming calls. And they would have missed the trip on Wake's Harris had not Coach Davis gone ballistic after seeing Harris trip Withers.

"As insignificant as it might seem, I believe that's a Flagrant 1 foul," Alexander said. Insignificant? The Carolina coach and fans didn't think it was insignificant.

Had Carolina's season ended in this manner - with officials losing control and dim-witted Alexander supporting them - it would have been an injustice.