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Okay, for all concerned, I'm going to break this down nice and slow.
Here's the sequence of events:
1.) Ball touched inbounds by Memphis player.
2.) Ball hits court.
3.) Official blows whistle (whether for being OOB or just an IW)
4.) Ball bounces up, and lands at the table, definitely OOB
Now, according to NCAA Rule 6-5-1d, the ball became dead when the official blew the whistle. For whatever reason the T blew it, it became dead. Now, the question is to whether or not the OOB call or the IW call could be overturned in this situation.
For the OOB call, it is a judgement call, and NCAA Rule 2-5-3c says that "The officials shall not use a courtside monitor or courtside videotape for judgment calls such as: (c) A violation." So this doesn't work. If it was an OOB call, the ball was dead when the whistle was blown, and then call can't be changed, even though it would have obviously been incorrect.
For the IW call, the ball is simply dead, and there is nothing to correct.
Either way, the ball was dead when the whistle blew, and therefore the time should have been measured from when the ball was touched until when the T blew his whistle.
THIS is not the timing error. There was a timing error on this play, but it is irrespective of when the ball became dead.
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