Another reason for Precision Time (where the officials start the clock too) and not depend on the table to start it.

Best thing about this game? Zero clock reviews.

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B/C....I thought both were charges on the initial viewing live. Watching the replay now, it seems both defenders changed direction to move forward just a bit right before contact. It is very small but I think they gave up LGP by the forward movement. The C was in perfect position on the first one to make the call. That must be what he saw. On the 2nd, I don't think either the L (just rotating) or the C becoming T had that great of an angle...and didn't put a whistle on a play they couldn't see well.

BI's....both should have been BI.

Overall, I thought it was a very well officiated game....distinctly better (more consistent) than the UL/UK game two days before.

B/Cs I thought the first was PC. We have had lots of discussion about whether defensive players are moving forward at point of contact, but at what point are we splitting hairs? The way I see it, B52 had LGP, moved laterally, and then contact. Would anyone approach these plays with the ant/elephant mentality of the ant being slight forward movement (I did not notice any on first watch, but will rewatch to see) and elephant being lowering of shoulder and, IMO, the creation of the contact by A30?

I am fine with a no call on the second. I cannot tell how much contact there was from this angle.

Both BI.

I have a PC on the first play, and probably a block on the 2nd one.

Both basket plays were BI.

The C actually acknowledges that the throw-in pass was tipped, but I doubt the clock operator was looking at him.

On the first Block/PC play I can't see any movement forward by the defender. His feet moved away from the BH/dribbler until there was contact, at which point his feet stopped.

If there's any forward movement with his upper body - and I don't think there is - to me it falls in the category of firming up. As Debbie Williamson put it, "he's taking a breath because he thinks it's the last one he's ever going to take."

As to where the C was looking, I tried to watch his head and I think he just picked up the defender late.

I would have been fine with a PC on the first, any foward movement was incredibly small. I was just looking for something that the C may have seen that led him to a block.

That said, forward is forward. You have to decide one way or the other if you're going to blow a whistle. If the defender, on such a play, is not legal, why call the foul on the player who was legal over the one who wasn't. It is the defender that has the responsibility for being in a legal position, not the offense.

With Ed Corbett and Randall McCall, this game was truly a celebration of old-school mechanics.

Ed Corbett seems as though he has always stuck to his roots and has used IAABO mechanics and even an occasional bird dog.......