Did anyone see the end of this game the other night? it made me continue to think that the NCAA is completely inept when it comes to its administration of college basketball. In a tie game, with 2.7 seconds remaining, Georgetown was fouled. TCU was out of timeouts. Georgetown made the first free-throw to go up by one point. It should have intentionally missed the second free throw considering there was zero chance of TCU rebounding the basketball and scoring a basket in the final 2.7 seconds because it had no timeouts left. However, Georgetown made the second free-throw to go up by two. TCU inbounded the ball, and a TCU player took a wild, half court shot from the right side of the court that banked in at the buzzer. The officials reviewed the play in order to determine whether the shot had been taken in time. The review showed that the shot had been taken in time, but that the shooter had his right foot squarely planted on the out of bounds line while taking the shot. Chalk up the victory for TCU. Whether the shooter was out of bounds when he took the shot was not a reviewable play because the officials had not called the player out of bounds when he took the shot. In that latter situation, the play would have been reviewable. So, the team that lost the game won the game.
Although it benefitted us, I thought that the officials reviewing our out of bounds call against Virginia a 2nd time was bizarre. They reviewed it, determined it was Virginia ball. Then another angle comes in and the announcer, a UVA grad, spots that it’s our ball and gets the officials attention. They reverse their decision based on what the announcer was seeing. Tony Bennett went off on the guy. Thought it would for sure turn into a headline but never did.
