In today's Indiana-Minnesota game, the Gophers were ahead by about 20 points with 1:15 left in the 2nd half when the Gophers scored a basket. The last 2-3 minutes had been getting chippy. Indiana's Marco Killingsworth is inbounding the ball, steps over the line inbounds, steps back out of bounds again, and throws the ball in. An obvious violation. Ed Hightower however did not call the violation, instead "overlooking" it, and kept the clock running by not blowing the whistle for a meaningless violation.
While I'm sure there are some officials who say "a foul is a foul" and "a violation is a violation," I personally felt by not blowing this play dead, Hightower showed good game management skills.
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Sun Jan 29, 2006, 08:45pm
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