March Madness 2018: Auburn put wrong player on free-throw line to seal win vs. Charleston | NCAA Basketball | Sporting News
This too, let's put a small team of people watching the games that can go over the replays and during the last five minutes catch things like this. They can inform the table before the fts, or waive them off and get the right shooter. We've all seen this in games and seen refs mix up who the shooter is. Sometimes the players are mixed up as well, but even if they are not it's worth it for them to try it which they likely did in the Auburn game. That doesn't mean they are bad refs but that there could be some sort of backup plan to avoid these screwups.