Duke vs. Villanova

[dahoopref]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

Actually, the player from Villanova grabbed and pulled the Duke player out the way which allowed the other 'Nova player to get the rebound in the first place. The foul came before the 'Nova even touched the ball. Definitely should have waved off the basket.

I saw this play too and was surprised that the basket was counted. One of the other crew members should've had a red-flag raised as to something being amiss when the calling official had an offensive foul and counted the basket. It will be interesting to see if anyone on this crew gets a Final Four assignment.

[rockyroad]

Originally Posted by dahoopref

I saw this play too and was surprised that the basket was counted. One of the other crew members should've had a red-flag raised as to something being amiss when the calling official had an offensive foul and counted the basket. It will be interesting to see if anyone on this crew gets a Final Four assignment.

One of the things I have noticed about some of the "big dog" officials over the years is their lack of communication with their partners during games. I was at the morning session of the first day games in Portland, OR, and watched one of the crews have some interesting communication problems. One of the officials tried to talk with a partner several times during dead ball situations, and the partner turned and walked away all three times! So when that partner needed some information on a call later on, there was none provided. Sounds like this was the same kind of situation - one of the partners should have come and helped out, but didn't.

And scrapper - why are we resetting on an airball if the same team keeps possession???

[Scrapper1]

Originally Posted by GoodwillRef

Why would you reset the shot clock?

Originally Posted by rockyroad

And scrapper - why are we resetting on an airball if the same team keeps possession???

In Men's (the Women's rule changed just this past season, I believe), you reset on any held ball, 2-11-6c. The only exceptions are:

2-11-7:

e) during team control and the arrow favors the offensive team;
i) simultaneous held ball during a throw-in and the arrow favors the throw-in team; and
j) when the ball goes out of bounds and the officials don't know who it went off of, and the arrow favors the offensive team.

So since there was no team control after the try was released, when the ball was simultaneously held by opponents, the shot clock should have reset.