Why did the UConn player try to go to the basket when they could have went for the last shot?

Congrats to Miss. State. Huge upset...

 

Props to UCONN for making women's college basketball entertaining.

@Clyde, @gametime or others who might know officiating rules ... thoughts on the above questions?

 

I can't say I keep up with college rules as closely as high school but I THINK the flagrant has simply to do with contact above the shoulders. I don't think intent is required for F1.

 

No clue on replay rules.

I think is dead ball to dead ball. if they don't review it at the first dead ball, then it is play on. Sometimes though, the next dead ball is 3 to 4 minutes, but not usually at the end of the game.

Why did the UConn player try to go to the basket when they could have went for the last shot?

 

I have no idea what she was thinking...and she is the FIFTH option on that team. I am sure Geno wanted ANY of the other players to take the last second shot before her. It was stunning to see a UCONN player make such a terrible decision because they typically do not do that.

Exactly, which is why I said during the game thread its the rule thats terrible.

 

I agree that the rule is what is bad, NOT the call. They need to change the rule because this situation could have been MUCH WORSE than it turned out to be. Let's say that instead of being up 2, Mississippi St. was up 1. Let's say that the flagrant foul occurred but was not called and that UCONN did not get the ball and call time-out until there was only 4 seconds left instead of 25 seconds. Could you imagine if they called the flagrant foul and gave her 2 FT's AND UCONN the ball in that situation? So they go from down 1 to up 1 and get the ball...with ONLY 4 seconds left!?!? That would be NIGHTMARE for the sport.

 

I think the solution is that if this situation occurs in the last two minutes of the game, if the flagrant foul is called after the fact, the game goes back to THAT POINT and replay from there. Any subsequent points or fouls are wiped off the board. I think you have to do it that way late in the game because the strategy of both teams would have changed if the foul would have been called when it occurred instead of 30 seconds or a minute later.