Drexel vs Niagra out of bounds play

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by jeffpea

You are correct, CLH, there were two plays near the end of the game where officials went to the monitor.

The first play happened on the sidline near the Drexel bench when a foul was called on a Niagara player (around 1:30 or so left in the game). The officials went to the monitor to look at the # of the player fouled to make sure they had the correct shooter.

The second play happened during a trap on near the endline in Niagara's backcourt. The Niagara player tried to throw the ball off of a Drexel player while falling out of bounds. His throw hit the endline and bounced up and hit him. The officials correctly gave the ball to Drexel and used the monitor to add approx. 4 seconds back on the clock after it was not stopped properly (which was a little odd seeing as the crew was using PTS).

The announcers thought the officials were using the monitor in the first play to see who was the last to touch the ball - which didn't matter because of the foul that was called.

As we all know, never trust what the announcer says or the "facts" when it comes to "second-hand information".....

There was a foul called? Granted I was doing some other things, but I thought there was just an out of bounds call. It was obvious to me that they were putting time on the clock. I never listen to announcers about what happens in a game.

I remember a few days ago the officials called a substitution timeout and the dumb announcers said they called a travel. And when they gave the ball back to the same team, the announcers never corrected the mistake. Listening to them is like expecting monkey to answer the ESPN Trivia questions right half the time.

Peace