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In the 2nd Half of the OSU-Texas Big XII Final, OSU attempted a shot with time running down on the shot clock. A Texas player blocked the shot and it hit the floor OOB on the end line. The whistle blew and then, maybe a half second later, the shot clock horn sounded.
I know that we spent some time a few weeks ago discussing what to do on this play in a HS game that is using a shot clock because it is unclear if the NCAA shot clock rules should apply there, too.
Anyway just to pass along the info to those that read this forum, the ruling in this NCAA game was to put a full 1 second back on the shot clock and give the ball to OSU at the OOB spot.
Unfortunately, the situation led to a mess. OSU inbounded to a player directly under the basket who tossed up a wild shot. As the ball went straight up in the air near the top of the backboard and then started to come down, the shot clock horn sounded, and the trail official, thinking that the shot had no chance of hitting the rim blew the whistle. Well just as he was putting air into that whistle the ball came down on right on the rim and bounced out into the lane where a couple of players batted it a bit.
The official had to eat the inadvertant whistle and go over to the coaches and tell them that they were going to the arrow. To make it worse, the arrow favored OSU. So Texas head coach, Barnes, began a childlike tantrum, pleading that his team was getting the rebound, blah, blah, blah.
At least it was an educational play to see.
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