VCU at St Bon end of regulation

[Nevadaref]

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/news/st...235526854.html

[frezer11]

The ruling is clearly correct, let me start with that. But this is one of those rules that annoys me that it is different for the men's and women's game. If this was a women's game, they get 2 free throws, and we might not even need overtime. Why should that rule be different? There is no justification that I can make any sense of as to why the men's and women's game have different penalties for something like this. And I'm fine with it being 1 shot by the way, but the women's game should adopt that as well, or vice-versa.

[JRutledge]

The reasoning is simple. If you give them 1 shot for things like these, this will likely be enforced. Many officials before would try not to penalize the situation because the penalty in their mind was too harsh. And the reason Men and Women basketball are different because they have two different committees and they want their own game and rules. I really do not care what women basketball does at all, I do not work it. There are already a lot of differences already, why does this have to be the same?

Peace

[Dale3]

The interesting part of this situation to me is that VCU in-bounds the ball and chucks up 3 quarter court shot before the court storming. The Trail even chops the clock on this inbound.

At that time there were only 10 players on the court and 2 cameramen for some reason. Although it does appear that the C is trying to hold up play.

[frezer11]

Originally Posted by Dale3

The interesting part of this situation to me is that VCU in-bounds the ball and chucks up 3 quarter court shot before the court storming. The Trail even chops the clock on this inbound.

At that time there were only 10 players on the court and 2 cameramen for some reason. Although it does appear that the C is trying to hold up play.

?? What are you looking at? The ball is bouncing away on the endline while the court is being stormed. There is no one from VCU even remotely near the ball.

[ChuckS]

Atlantic 10's Clarification of the VCU-St. Bonaventure End-of-Game Officiating Statement

Although the game officials cited crowd interference as the rationale for assessing the administrative technical foul at the end of regulation in the VCU-St. Bonaventure men's basketball game, that interpretation was inaccurately associated with the SBU students and fans storming the court during regulation.

The administrative technical foul was assessed for multiple reasons. The most significant was an individual taking the game ball from the inbounding baseline (assuming time had expired) and walking down the sideline, causing the VCU player to look for the ball, and chase the individual to secure the ball for inbound. Simultaneously, one of the game officials collided with a fan on the court, prior to the inbound toss. It was after these violations that the clock expired, and the students and fans stormed the court with :00 on the clock.

As a result of this mis-representation of the administrative technical foul assessed to St. Bonaventure, which reflected poorly on the SBU student body, the officiating crew will be disciplined for not immediately stopping the game for disruption of play.

There were an unfortunate series of events in this game, which impacted both institutions and the A-10 ... thus, the conference will continue to work with all involved including the game officials for stronger game management in the future.