This was the most amazing finish to a game that I have ever seen (When it comes to officiating)!
Let me break it down for everyone that didn't see it. I will try and post a clip of it later.
Tennessee (White) is losing 58-57.
5.5 Tennessee player shoots from behind the free throw line and misses.
3.8 Tennessee player (Parker) gets the rebound.
1.6 Tennessee player shoots 7 feet from the basket and misses
0.4 Tennessee player grabs the rebound in the air.
0.2 Tennessee player lands from gathering the rebound.
0.2
Clock Stops
0.2
0.2
0.2
0.2 Rutgers player grabs Tennessee player from behind and yanks her to the ground.
This is what should have occurred.
0.4 Tennessee player grabs the rebound in the air.
0.2 Tennessee player lands from gathering the rebound.
0.2
Clock Stops
0.0 Time should have expired.
-0.1 Rutgers player grabs Tennessee player from behind and yanks her to the ground.
(This should be an intentional foul! Obviously this opens a whole new bag of worms!)
(For the timing above I used frame by frame step though from my DVR and everything is very accurate. Eight frames (from one of the angle that they played in slow motion) is exactly 0.1 seconds. I went back 2 seconds and counted each frame, 24 frames went by before the Rutgers player made contact to start her foul. Time should have expired at 16 frames.)
For those saying that the C had a whistle. The C could NOT have had a whistle because the foul had not yet occurred! The clock stopped before any contact on a foul occurred. Was it the timer? Was it a malfunction?
So time should have expired and Rutgers should have won, right? Or, if time had expired would they have called an intentional foul? NO they ruled it a common foul (based on the fact that players where lined up at the free throw line and after both made free throws Rutgers was permitted to make the throw-in from any point outside of the end line). So by rule if they decided it was a common foul then the game should have been over
(if the time did not stop). Also this is women's college rules so even if there was an intentional foul after time expired they cannot penalize it. If this was a High School or Men's college game then they could penalize the intentional foul.
I don't know if there is any rule in place that would allow them to fix the timing issue. They must have definite knowledge that the time expired. I think that a case play is needed for this situation where the clock stops when it should not and a video monitor is available for the officials. The officials need a timer (on the monitor) that is external from the game clock that continues to run. This would allow them to fix this play.
By the way anyone that says this is not intentional needs to watch it again because this is the exact definition of an intentional foul!
The Tennessee player is then allowed to shoot 2 free throws and makes both with 0.2 seconds showing on the clock. Rutgers is then allowed a throw-in along the endline which they eventually throw away. (The clock actually didn't start on this play but it was touched before going out of bounds so by rule the game is over.)
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