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Originally Posted by Thumper68
This is on ESPN.
ST. LOUIS -- The Missouri Valley Conference has disciplined the officiating crew from Sunday night's Wichita State-Illinois State game after it awarded technical foul shots to the wrong player in the closing seconds of the game.
The league office said in a statement Monday the crew of David Hall, Gerry Pollard and Paul Janssen wrongly awarded two foul shots to the Shockers' Cleanthony Early after calling a Flagrant 1 technical foul on Illinois State star Jackie Carmichael with 40 seconds left.
The officials reviewed video during a stoppage in play that showed Carmichael kicking Wichita State's Tekele Cotton above the shoulder on a defensive rebound.
The Shockers were trailing 67-60 when the incident occurred. Early made both technical free throws and his 3-pointer with 5.2 seconds left gave them a 68-67 victory.
The conference did not say how the officials were disciplined.
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That article makes no sense for 2 reasons.
First, you can't have a "wrong" shooter for a technical foul.
Second, the foul was for live ball contact, so it was a personal foul, not a technical foul.
Hopefully someone will write an accurate article on the situation.
My thinking, they incorrectly assessed the live ball contact as a technical foul.