Administrative Duties of Referee

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by comical

Regarding the 6 fouls/7 fouls discussion, according to the writer for the Syracuse paper there was a problem related to that in the Syracuse University-Boston University game on December 12th. Apparently SU was awarded two 1-and-1 tries after foul #8 because free throws weren't awarded after the 7th foul of the first half. At least that's what it said in the paper.

I wasn't there and didn't watch the game on TV so don't know any more about it. But as someone who's an official scorer at a different school (who rarely posts here), I'm thinking at least part of the problem is that something happened at the table where they lost track of the fouls or didn't communicate with the officials on the floor. That's just a guess on my part, though.

I hope the link works. It's to one of those slide shows instead of an article.

Best and worst from Syracuse basketball vs. Boston University | syracuse.com

Looking at the play-by-play, the same player for BU committed 2 fouls back-to-back at the 8:37 and 8:34 marks. Those were the 5th and 6th team fouls.

At the 7:18 mark BU committed a defensive foul for TF #7, but the Cuse did not shoot any free throws.

At the 6:58 mark, BU committed its 8th team foul and Syracuse shot 2 sets of free throws.