NCAA 2-man alert!
 

Lewis Garrison gets clocked by Cockburn from Illinois as he celebrates and is unable to continue. Kimble and Borovski are finishing the contest 2-man.
The injury to the official occurred somewhere around 4 minutes remaining.

Saw the replay. Hope he's alright, he got hit pretty good.

Unfortunate and scary. Hope the best for him.

On another note, that’s such a dumb ending to the game.
To insist upon having a shot clock violation and inbounding the ball in a 9-point game, but not clearing the cheerleaders and camera crews off the court doesn’t make any sense.

Caught the last minute. Was hoping to see a few switches but none materialized.

The 0.1 second shot clock differential that forced a bizarre final throw-in was, well, bizarre.


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The game clock on TV was less than the shot clock, though I saw the shot clock still displaying in the arena. Bizarre ending indeed.

It happened with 3:11 remaining. There is a video currently posted on ESPN.

Could lead to a decent bit of advice for officials to not run out onto the floor when making a call as the Lead.

This is true. Post, patience, signal.

In the end I think this is just an unfortunate accident that nobody could foresee. I think if we can learn anything from this it's to wait until we're sure of our path to the table.

The TV clocks aren't always sync'd with the game clocks -- the TV clocks are run by someone in the production truck. If you pay attention, you will see a few corrections / resets throughout the broadcast.

It used to be more prevalent (or maybe I used to be more observant -- I will admit I watch fewer and fewer games on TV as time passes).

Yes...I nearly clocked a few kids as L back in my first year. In fairness to myself the endline of the courts at the time were only a foot from the walls.

I am a bit surprised this isn't a technical foul against the player. In sports we often talk about how a player has to be in control of themselves during play, they are responsible for their actions, ect. This was clearly a case of a player not being in complete control of his actions, which resulted in very UNINTENTIONAL contact with an official outside the actual play of the game.

I understand completely that this was unintentional, but it was his action that caused an injury to the official. To me this should be a technical foul, without the ejection that comes with intentional contact of an official.

I know there are rules against contacting an official across all sports, and that contact needs to be deemed intentional to draw an ejection (I think all sports now deem intentional contact with an official an ejection). I am just surprised that this isn't a penalized action.

(For full disclosure, I am a UofM fan, but would feel the same way if it was a Michigan fan who hit the official instead of an Illinois player).

Accidents happen, we just had last week an official ran over on a steal in transition. U's in football get clobbered all the time. Just part of the job. Now if it was intentional, ejection would be the least the player needs to worry about.

I just saw a replay. The official didn't do anything wrong, like walk through the players. The player was just celebrating spontaneously. Just an unfortunate accident.

I can't speak to college rules, but under NFHS rules, the act does not fall within any "player technical" definition, IMO.

In both NFHS and NCAA-M's rule sets, disrespectfully contacting an official is mentioned as being a technical foul.

We agree, Raymond. This (even considering its unintentional consequence) was not disrespectful. A technical would not be justified under the rules.