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Originally Posted by JRutledge
Not sure they have a lot of choices. If I am not mistaken the WAC Championship is going on when the major conferences are playing. You are not going to get a lot of rotation if some of the best in the country are working other tournaments at the same time. Even then you want the best officials working games. This not HS basketball. Everyone is on a higher and more professional level. It is not uncommon to see the better conference officials often for one team in any conference.
Peace
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Rut, that is absolutely correct. The WAC is still playing second fiddle to the big boys and can't attract the best of the best for its conference tourney when it is played on the same dates. However, I have to believe that a switch on the conference semifinal assignments could have been done with the officials working the other semifinal.
For the record of the three officials who worked the other semi, (Ruben Ramos, Bob Staffen, Rick Batsell) only Staffen had Nevada in the final week. He was with Gracey on the March 1 game at Utah State. So why not use either of the other two?
BTW the box score on the NV/Idaho game on ESPN is wrong for the officials. Yahoo has it right. It was Gracey, Dixon, Hernandez.