So Duke has no chance to win the game if you are officiating because you are afraid to call a foul on the last shot of the game. Great philosophy!

2nd half

How about the free throws at 25.6 seconds left. Ball tipped out of bounds by Duke after missed free throw. VT player grabs a Duke player who had a play to save the ball preventing him from doing so. No foul called, crew has to go to the video to determine who the ball was off. Not their finest moment of the game.

I am going to assume you mean second half?

Peace

Correct. Sorry I left that off.

Just wanted to save time. No problem.

Peace

Did anyone react to that no-call? Did anyone other than refs who've been trained to "watch the shooter come down" even notice the VT player jump slightly into Allen's path? The kid took a desperation shot and he isn't getting any help unless he ends up bleeding on the court.

Get the obvious.

Desperation? That's normal 3-point range. I know a Mid-Atlantic college supervisor who got on a crew for not calling a foul on a half-court heave at the end of a game. He said the crew needs to have the courage to make that call.

For #4, should goal tending be called? It looks to me like that shot still might have gone in.

Ball was coming up short of the rim. And that was the offensive player who grabbed the ball.

Might have been a foul. Seemed borderline to me. I stick with no call. Also, "the Kid" is Grayson Allen, he's not going to get borderline calls.

I thought it was really tough to tell from the angle we had if the ball was going to hit the rim. I thought it was going to hit the rim and go up in the air--with a minimal chance of going in on a bounce. But pretty irrelevant since it was the offensive player and the buzzer went off first.


Note that Allen did not even look for a call . . .

I'd like to hope this is irrelevant.