Another suspension looming?

[rsl]

The clock says 0.0. If I am a fan or bench personnel, how do I know I shouldn't be on the floor?

Technical here seems very extreme. Maybe one of the NCAAW guys can shed some insight.

[SCalScoreKeeper]

Rich-can you post NCAA AR.269? Or is the rulebook available online?

[JetMetFan]

Originally Posted by rsl

The clock says 0.0. If I am a fan or bench personnel, how do I know I shouldn't be on the floor?

Which is exactly why no T should have been assessed. Either...

a) The game was over, or...
b) The officials were going to have to stop play to correct the clock, meaning play wasn't going to be affected.

Rich is right. I see a suspension coming for this one.

[JetMetFan]

Here's the entire game. The play in question is at 1:54:37

Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference - Portal

I tried to stop the video when the ball passed through the net and I got 0:00.2. Regardless, the officials knew immediately there should have been time on the clock and there was a monitor available. They're going to have a tough time explaining to their coordinator why they assessed a T given they had to stop everything to go to the monitor.

At 1:57:30 is the moment the home HC finds out about the T. I give him credit for not absolutely losing his s*&#.

[BryanV21]

What bothers me most about this is not that one official didn't know the rule, but that all three didn't know. And they took a minute to discuss it first.

You'd think one of them might say "wait, I'm not sure a tech is right here."

Then again, maybe one of them did, but he was an umpire and was overruled by the ref.

Either way, they screwed up and could pay for it.

[rsl]

Here is another account, which includes the following quote from the winning coach:

Winona State coach Scott Ballard acknowledged that he brought up the idea of a technical foul to the officials. “I put the bug in their ear," he told the Winona Daily News "You can’t have people storming the floor before the game is over. That’s interfering with the conclusion of the game. There were hundreds of them. It wasn’t like a dozen. It was the entire student section.”

Since when do referees take advice from coaches?

[Adam]

Originally Posted by rsl

Here is another account, which includes the following quote from the winning coach:

Winona State coach Scott Ballard acknowledged that he brought up the idea of a technical foul to the officials. “I put the bug in their ear," he told the Winona Daily News "You can’t have people storming the floor before the game is over. That’s interfering with the conclusion of the game. There were hundreds of them. It wasn’t like a dozen. It was the entire student section.”

Since when do referees take advice from coaches?

Coaches also give themselves too much credit sometimes. How many times does a coach stand up and ask for a travel just as we're about to make the call? You can bet some of them think they gave you the idea.