Foul call at end of Cinci/UConn game

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by Bad Zebra

I thought Cahill had a marginal view of the shot as well. Pretty tough call against UConn at that point. Looked to me like Edwards got all ball or if he did get some contact on the shooter, it was the hand-on-ball.

My take too..after viewing all the replays that they showed also.

Kind of a wierd call in a game with so much contact being let go.

Disclaimer: I don't like either team. If they both hadda lost, I'd have been happy.

[truerookie]

Being twenty feet from the T.V. I thought the call was marginal too.

[Rufus]

Disclaimer - I'm a UConn grad and fan.

I thought the call was marginal as well but justifiable. He may not have had the best look at the call but he sold it (BTW, was anyone else ticked at the ESPN announcer who kept saying "He's calling the second contact! Do you see how his hand goes up at the second, not first, contact?" We're talking fractions of a second and she's wanting instantaneous. Ok, end of rant). Both my son and I thought .7 was a bit of a gift, actually, since it appeared there was only .3 on the clock when the contact occurred (couldn't hear the whistle in the replays).

Personally I thought they missed a play about 30 seconds earlier when the shot clock was reset during a scrum for the ball. They gave the ball back to Cincy with 1 second on the shot clock (and UConn almost let them score with the inbound from backcourt!) so it ended up being not a big deal I guess.

Finally, I agree the crew did a good job overall. On separate plays they called a carry and a throw-in violation (moving beyond 3 foot box - not sure if the rule is the same in NCAA as HS but that's what it looked like) on Cincy that I don't think I've ever seen called in a D1 game before.

[bbcof83]

Originally Posted by Rufus

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Personally I thought they missed a play about 30 seconds earlier when the shot clock was reset during a scrum for the ball. They gave the ball back to Cincy with 1 second on the shot clock (and UConn almost let them score with the inbound from backcourt!) so it ended up being not a big deal I guess.
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I thought so too at first but when you think about it, what option did they have? The shot clock hit 1 then was reset to 35 and didn't start right away. It started as the player requested and was granted a TO. Had the operator not screwed up I definitely think it would have been a violation. BUT, definite knowledge is required (I'm not an NCAA guy, but that's the NF rule anyway) and they didn't have it. What they had was a 1 on the shot clock. I think they got it right. That said, I wouldn't have blamed them for calling a violation either but I think they had rules support for the 1 on the clock.

Tough game and that crew did a great job.

[Rufus]

Originally Posted by bbcof83

I thought so too at first but when you think about it, what option did they have? The shot clock hit 1 then was reset to 35 and didn't start right away. It started as the player requested and was granted a TO. Had the operator not screwed up I definitely think it would have been a violation. BUT, definite knowledge is required (I'm not an NCAA guy, but that's the NF rule anyway) and they didn't have it. What they had was a 1 on the shot clock. I think they got it right. That said, I wouldn't have blamed them for calling a violation either but I think they had rules support for the 1 on the clock.

Tough game and that crew did a great job.

I agree and should have been more specific in that while they seemed to miss the call (or the person operating the shot clock did) they derived a solution that seemed appropriate. Can't speak to whether it actually was or not as I'm not familiar with NCAA rules pertaining to shot clock violations.

[Nevadaref]

Originally Posted by Rufus

I agree and should have been more specific in that while they seemed to miss the call (or the person operating the shot clock did) they derived a solution that seemed appropriate. Can't speak to whether it actually was or not as I'm not familiar with NCAA rules pertaining to shot clock violations.

They went by the game clock when consulting the monitor. It is simple to use subtraction and determine what the shot clock would have been had it not been reset.