Bench nailed it earlier when he said the officials should have cleared the floor, put the time back on the clock, and played out the remaining 0.4.

 

Yep. Of course these officials, as is almost always the case, wanted to be the star of the show. Now they're out of work for a while. All could've been avoided had they just exercised even the slightest bit of common sense.

Yep. Of course these officials, as is almost always the case, wanted to be the star of the show. Now they're out of work for a while. All could've been avoided had they just exercised even the slightest bit of common sense.

 

I'm not sure the motive of the officials, but they got this wrong.

 

Everyone thought the game was over. The team that hit the shot, the announcer, and even the team who should have lost but won...no one races to take the ball out of bounds. Four of the five walk toward their bench and the fifth just stands under the basket with her hands over her head. They also thought the game was over.

 

On a side note: what a shot!

So what was the T for in that rule? Because if its the "followers entering the playing court before the player activity has been terminated", the player activity was terminated when the clock went to 0.0 and the horn sounded.

 

Player activity is not terminated until the officials vacate the visual confines of the playing surface...

Common sense would say it's the winning teams fans, but common season also tells us when the clock shows 0.0 and the horn sounds the game is over.

 

The game is not officially over until the Referee validates the final score with the official scorer. Until that time, jurisdiction remains...hence the monitor review.

No. Spoken as someone who has played basketball for more than 30 years, covered it professionally for 6 years and watched more than 100 games per year during those 6 years.

 

I guess the league officials who suspended these refs are also just speaking as fans.

 

Nope, because they didn't call the officials "idiots"...they appeased the conference and danced around it. It happens all the time

Yep.

 

Come on Randy...you've had to have seen enough games to know that this is not the rule. While it is inferred, when the officials vacate the court, the game is over and not until then....again, the reason they go to the monitor. Once the score is verified, in this case it hadn't been, then the game and player activity is over, once the officials leave the confines of the court, their jurisdiction ends.

you've had to have seen enough games

 

Exactly. I've seen this happen other times. Players have left the bench and the game wasn't officially over, but no technicals were called.

 

Yep. Of course these officials, as is almost always the case, wanted to be the star of the show. Now they're out of work for a while. All could've been avoided had they just exercised even the slightest bit of common sense.

 

This is interesting. What makes you believe that "almost always" the officials want to be "the star of the show". If you asked 100 officials what's most important to them, being seen comes up less than 5% of the time. The majority of the officials are not there to be seen, it's quite the contrary.

 

To make a blanket statement that they almost always want to be the star of the show demonstrates an incredible bias toward officials of any sport and I wonder how, as a fan of any sport, you would come to that conclusion.

 

If I presented you with a picture lineup of 10 guys, including the following: Jeff Clark, Pat Driscoll, John Higgins, Harry Black, and Jim Stanton....could you pick them out of lineup ?

Exactly. I've seen this happen other times. Players have left the bench and the game wasn't officially over, but no technicals were called.

 

 

It happens on pretty much every single buzzer beater. It sounds like, according to BirdBrain, they should all be assessed technicals.

In the comments section, someone mentions the Rule that BirdBrain referred to, but they have something added to the end:

 

Art. 7.

Delaying the game by preventing the ball from being promptly made live or by preventing continuous play, such as bench personnel entering the playing court before player activity has been terminated.

When the delay does not interfere with play, it shall be ignored.

 

 

 

It happens on pretty much every single buzzer beater.

 

It certainly happens on a lot of them, I would say.

Exactly. I've seen this happen other times. Players have left the bench and the game wasn't officially over, but no technicals were called.

 

 

Fans storm the court ? Again, safety point of emphasis over the past few years...it's not because of players, it's because of fans...

Fans storm the court ? Again, safety point of emphasis over the past few years...it's not because of players, it's because of fans...

 

Ramon Harris left the bench in that clip. Also, Rick Stansbury was WAY out on the court/out of the coaching box.

 

Should both have been T'd up since there was still an Overtime period to play?

In the comments section, someone mentions the Rule that BirdBrain referred to, but they have something added to the end:

 

Art. 7.

Delaying the game by preventing the ball from being promptly made live or by preventing continuous play, such as bench personnel entering the playing court before player activity has been terminated.

When the delay does not interfere with play, it shall be ignored.

 

 

 

Agreed, when the delay does not interefere with play, it shall be ignored...as in the case of player celebration prior to finalization of score, non-factor. I really can't overstate it enough: Fans storming the court is a huge NCAA issue....

Ramon Harris left the bench in that clip. Also, Rick Stansbury was WAY out on the court/out of the coaching box.

 

Should both have been T'd up since there was still an Overtime period to play?

 

Fans, fans, fans, fans....the T was called because of fans storming the court...

 

Ground control to Major Tom.....