Cal/UCLA DD??

[SMEngmann]

Originally Posted by rainmaker

Okay, I'm assuming that shooting over the backboard is legal in NCAA?

And why did they put .7 on the clock on that final oob? Was it when the ball was tapped by UCLA?

And did anyone think that play down in UCLA's corner where the announcers thought the Cal player got hacked was really a foul? There wasn't one good angle on any of the replays.

Also contrary to what the announcers sayd, it was clearly the center's call. Lead didn't have a good angle at all.

Good points here. Shooting over the backboard is NOT legal in NCAA. Based on what I saw, I believe that the officials call a fist violation, which is why there was more time on the clock and the ball was inbounded on the sideline. If that was the case, however, I believe there should have been 1.5on the clock since the clock was stopped at 1.5 when the fist occurred. Either that or the ball should have been inbounded on the endline with however much time left that they determined when the ball was OOB.

In terms of the "foul" the announcers were barking about, there was no angle that definitively showed any foul. Further, the C made an excellent OOB call giving it to UCLA, so I very much doubt he could "swallow the whistle" if he was that focused on the OOB play. As for the over the backboard, judgement call and it was pretty close, so I think they erred on the side of counting the basket.