Conference Tournaments

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

From the ESPN article Dexter cited:

"At the scorer's table, officials used a stop watch to determine if the MAC title had been decided or not. They concluded that the clock should have started more quickly following Middleton's miss and sent both teams back on the floor."

So, I ask again, what kind of logic is that?

Don't these guys know the difference between addition and subtraction?

Sigh......

From the article......
- there was 6.6 seconds on the clock when the ball was touched on the missed FT. The clock was supposed to start then but didn't.
- the R used a stopwatch on the replay to determine that exactly 6.0 seconds elapsed from the touching on the FT to the time the made shot went through the net.
- the official got a grad from some other college than Georgetown or George Washington to subtract 6.0 seconds from 6.6 seconds, and he got the answer of 0.6 seconds.
- sooooooo....the R then put 0.6 seconds back on the clock.

It ain't nuclear physics. It also doesn't matter what any clock showed either.