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Originally Posted by Marcusmav
The refs are Jim Burr, J.D. Collins, and Tim Clougherty.
With 13:09 left in the 2nd half, Marquette winning 47-20, St. John's picked up their 7th team foul when they were going for a steal. St. John's coach, Norm Roberts, didn't like the call and got a technical foul. They shoot the two free throws for the technical. Marquette is getting ready to inbound the ball by the table and it appears like they are trying to let them know, but the ball is put into play. 10 seconds runs off, then the horn sounds. They realize that they should be shooting. They shoot the bonus throws with the lane cleared. They then give the ball back to Marquette. During the next timeout, ESPN said that J.D. told them that since they had already inbounded the ball that would use that as the point of interruption. I was thinking that NCAA 2-12-5 would apply, "unless the correction involves the failure to award a merited free throw(s) and there has been no change of team possession since the error was made. In that case, play shall resume as after any normal free throw."
I'm only 20 and in college, so there's a chance I could be interpreting it the wrong way. Here's 2 Final Four refs and Tim has some 1st round game experience, so you would think that they would have handled it right. Did anybody else see this and what would have been the right way to resume play after the correctable error?
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I also watched the game, the foul (team's 7th) occurred near the division line, table side. St John's coach receives a T (team's 8th). After Marquette shoots the 2 techs, the ball is inbounded at the division line, but opposite the table.
Not sure why they went opposite? After they discovered the error, as Nevada says, they kicked it.