Syracuse got a lot of calls against Toledo too, but I saw all 3 games and the Buffalo game was the worst. There was actually a play where Buffalo missed a jump shot and the rebound kicked out to the corner where Buffalo got it, but the refs blew a late whistle and said the ball went over the backboard and gave Syracuse the ball. Not only is this call never made unless the ball clearly kicks up over the backboard, but it is geometrically impossible for the ball to go over the backboard and be caught in bounds by a player in the corner. And that call happened at a key moment. While the EMU game was influenced by homer calls the way the game was going suggests Cuse was gonna squeak it out. Buffalo was leading and with momentum when the refs went homer and that changed the game. As I recall Syracuse barely made a basket in the last 10 minutes of both the Buffalo and Toledo games surviving almost exclusively on friendly foul calls and free throws.