Missed travel sent the JV game into OT (and then a 2OT)

[Rich]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

Did the player who traveled get a shot up and tie the game? If so, you should have doused him with lighter fluid and set him on fire for doing that.

Signed: the kinder, gentler JR.

Yes. Actually, my OP was a bit incorrect (it was a bit late). The travel would've put the ball in the hands of the winning team up 2 with 2 seconds left.

This travel was what I would conservatively call a running start. The pivot foot not only came up before the dribble, it came down again. Missed by the guy wearing the collared shirt.

It was funny watching the reaction of the varsity coaches, who I was talking with in the corner of the gym watching the end of this. Both of them saw their teams tie the score late and both of them openly grimaced when their players did so. They would've rather seen their JV team lose than have to sit through an OT (or 2). I even said to the visiting coach, "You'd better not let them see that face," and she started laughing.

She did ask me about a technical that got called in the first half of the JV game (before we arrived). They had a 1-1 and then a technical on the head coach. They shot the technical first and then the bonus and played it normally. She then described to me how it should've been played and I simply agreed with her. Maybe they were NCAA officials on the side.