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Originally Posted by Texas Aggie
The rule says "any direction." Your statement is false.
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The rule is "The ball shall be out of bounds when it passes over the backboard
from any direction."
It is the "passes over" part that needs to be looked at. I don't think that you can say that the UCLA shot "passed over" the backboard necessarily. It was barely over the corner of the backboard.
I have never seen that called as an OOB and don't think it should be. The two D1 officials I discussed the play with last night did not think so either -- and one of them is on the Pac 10 roster (not in that game though).
Also, others are correct that this is not a reviewable play.
In my view, the officials got it right and the ESPN commentators are making a big deal out of something that they know nothing about.
Also, Doug Gottlieb is a complete douchebag for his comments about Dave Libbey last night.
That is all.