In the Connecticut/Arkansas game the night before, the scorekeeper gave Connecticut 3 points on a ball that was signaled as a 2 by Gray and clearly was a two. The clock also seems to have had issues all tournament.
One thing interesting about the MSU/Gonzaga game was that McDonough said that, after one of the overtimes, one of the officials (Kitts, maybe?) came over to the announcer's table to tell them, "do you understand what just happened?" and then proceeded to describe how Gonzaga would have won if the shot after the shot clock buzzer had gone down.
Between the coaches wearing Hawaiian shirts and the officials talking to the broadcast team during the game, you get the sense that things are pretty informal out there in Maui. Some pretty good basketball so far, though.
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