It makes sense, but last night with Texas Tech-Gonzaga and tonight with Michigan State-Duke both crews had a call on the floor, went to the monitor, and then forgot or incorrectly adjudicated part of a rule.

Here's what happened tonight. Doug Sirmons called OOB on the endline, initially pointed MSU ball then overruled himself and pointed Duke ball. Perhaps he pointed the wrong way initially but I personally think he knew they were gonna go to the monitor to review the OOB and felt it was "smarter" to have the call on the floor be Duke ball (who was losing) in case the monitor view was inconclusive.

After they finished at the monitor they granted Duke a timeout. When timeouts are called during a live ball in the frontcourt the ensuing inbounds spot is one of the 4 spots specified in the rule book. However if an out of bounds violation occurs and then a timeout is called it does NOT change the inbounds spot.

Didn't look the crew got together and discussed the inbound spot, seems like Doug had a bit of a brain fart and his partners didn't notice. But Izzo noticed and threw a fit and it Gaffney was telling him to get back in his box when Doug realized his mistake and ran over saying he was gonna correct it. So they were about to screw it up but ultimately the ball was inbounded at the correct spot.

The ball went OOB around the 3-point line and Doug was lined up to take it at the 3' mark outside the lane -- 11 feet 8 inches closer to the basket. Potentially a big difference if Duke had a lob going to the basket. Plus it is much more difficult to inbound from the corner in general.

Ultimately they got it right, so I doubt they get sent home for this rules hiccup.