3.1 to 2.0?

[Jurassic Referee]

NCAA rule 2-5-1(f) says that the proper procedure is to make "A determination, based on the judgment of the official, that a timing mistake has occurred in either stopping or staring the clock".

The referee, Karl Hess, did exactly that. He's quoted in the NY Post this morning as saying "When you look at the monitor, the Memphis kid catches the ball, the ball hits the court and then went out of bounds. I put a stopwatch on it and comes out to 1.1 seconds."

That's exactly what has been said in this thread umpty-ump times to date. It's that simple. The R timed the interval from when the clock should have started, by rule, until the clock should have stopped, also by rule. The clock is supposed to start and the ball becomes live when the ball is legally touched or is touched by a player in-bounds on a throw-in. The clock is supposed to stop when a live ball then touches something out of bounds.

If somebody doesn't want to believe that, so be it.