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Section 6. Use of Replay Television Equipment
Officials may use courtside replay equipment, videotape or television monitoring to:
2. To prevent or rectify a game-clock mistake. This includes:
a. The failure to properly start or stop the game clock. The monitor may be used when, in the judgment of the official, a mistake has occurred;
Not sure why they used the monitor. But if they felt the clock should have stopped with time remaining, they were free to check. If they were checking for the foul having occurred before time expired, they would have been incorrect - but that was my uninformed guess, not an official statement. With that little time left, they clearly should have looked to get time on the clock if possible - that only helps Baylor. The fouled player could have shot with no time on the clock.
I still don't see anywhere that you answered why this shouldn't be blown as a foul. The official could not know the difference between .2 and .4, and .4 might be enough time to catch and shoot the rebound legally. So the whistle blew, which made the foul a fact. Are you arguing that they should somehow have known the time to the 1/10th second when they blew the whistle, or that they should have decided the foul came too late and ignored it even after having blown the whistle? Or somehting else altogether that I cannot fathom?
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