Option 1: Hella spilled.
Come on now, Jim Phillips. Your squad lost. Get over it.
First off, even if this woman did ref the game, she's a hall-of-famer, and the fact that her partner happens to be employed by the University of Maryland likely wouldn't have influenced her decision making. She's a ref. It's her job.
But that's not the scenario. She reffed one game between UNC and Northwestern. First off, if she's such a big Maryland fan, wouldn't her bias have helped NU in a matchup against another ACC school? Secondly, what effect does this have on the game you lost? None. Even if she talked to other refs during the game. I'm sure Danny Crawford has talked to Ed Hightower at some point in his life before, does that mean Hightower is going to start call a foul every time somebody tries to handcheck Drew Crawford? Probably not.
Dynasties are great because they're great, not because they whine their way to success. Getting all uppity about this just tarnishes the legacy that NU lacrosse should be trying to make for themselves, whereas if they simply lost with grace - and five national championships and a national runner-up is nothing to scoff about, people - nobody would think any less of them.
But when you try to cover up a game that this team had every chance to win but ended up losing by blaming it on the refs, you make yourself look bad.
Option 2: Mad unspilled.
This is a legit controversy. The ACC banned this ref from reffing UMD games for a reason, the fact that she's allowed to be involved with crowning NCAA championships is a disgrace.
NU didn't just bring this up because it's convenient: they've been pointing out the ethical dilemma presented by the situation for years, apparently having originally brought it to the NCAA's attention in 2007, and reportedly delivering a letter to the NCAA before the tournament requesting she not be allowed to ref.
Multiple sources cited in the story see the ref's position as unethical; judging from their history of calling Dillon out, NU is possibly less interested in having the game result overturned than they are in making sure everything is fair. It's less a selfish plea for a trophy than it is a plea for future justice to be served.
Option 3: Condensed milk, that pretty much isn't milk at all
It's finals week, and I'm in the midst of a thousand-word treatise about a women's lacrosse refereeing controversy over a game that happened a week ago. I can think of legitimately ten thousand better things to do, including but not limited to watching the entire film "Pootie Tang", which is especially a big waste of time considering I watched the entire film "Pootie Tang" less than six hours ago.