Saw Basket Interference call made Monday late evening during the Brigham Young vs New Mexico game.
Call was made by the lead which I thought was rather unusual... (shouldn't be looking up to the basket, should he?)
From his position it was a good call. But... upon slo-mo replay you see that there were two BIs and that the one which got called would not have happened if the first BI hadn't occurred.
I forget how NM's shot got to the rim (lay-up or outside shot) but the ball was in the cylinder above the rim. As it is going down into the basket NM crashes the board for the potential rebound. BYU's big guy (something starting with an A) slaps from below the ring and through the net, hits the ball (it appears the ball was going to go through the basket). The ball is still partially in the cylinder but now fully above the ring when it hits NM's hands that are straight up and slightly outside the cylinder. Lead calls BI on NM (Garner or something); no points; BYU ball.
The BYU interference ocurred on the side of the basket away from the lead official and the NM interference was on the same side as the Lead so it was easy for him to see. The funny part is that NM would not have interfered if not for BYU's interference knocking the ball out of the basket.
I'm not sure BYU's interference could have been recognized without slo-mo replay - the ball was about 1/4 of the way into the basket and it could have been interpretted to have hit the rim and bounced out... into NM's upright hand. Perhaps that is why none of the outside officials called anything.
As the level of play increases the decisions need to be sharper.
