His best defensive "help" move didnt even get called. He stepped in and took a perfect charge on Toledo's last drive to the basket and the ref "swallowed his whistle" and he did not have the balls to make the obvious call. Had that ball gone in, I would hope that I wasnt the only person to notice this blown call. The driver ran right over Jason and there was no call ! The ref choked and it could have cost us the win !
Your observations are clearly correct here. This is one thing that drives me crazy about college basketball officiating. The tendency to call things differently in the final minutes of a game. If it's a charge in the first minute of play it's a charge in the last 10 seconds of play. If it's foul in the first minute, it's a foul in the last 30 seconds, etc. Be consistent.
What made that non-call look so bad was the manner in which the Toledo player lowered his head and knock Carter over, it was dangerous, he was on the ground nearly getting stepped on at the end.
Although I have agree with OUVan, I'm just glad they didn't whistle a block call. I would guess that if that happen in the first 35 minutes of the game, 85% of time MAC officials would call Charge, 10% they would call block, and 5% they would look at each other and wonder why somebody else didn't call anything. Lets not forget, in the first half Gavin Block got called for blocking violations twice, when it clearly looked like he had his feet set outside the arch.