Great Game - Butler vs. OSU on ESPN

[amckillip]

Xavier @ Butler - Once again Butlers provides me some great Saturday entertainment... They make some key plays late in the game to pull back ahead (after being up by 15 ). I'm hopin' they hold on...

Also I absolutely HATE Bob Knight, but he is a GREAT announcer.

[amckillip]

In a CRAZY call they say the games over because of a clock freeze. Probably correct call, but absolutely a bad DECISION, because now you could question the call that Hayward made the basket.

Now the Xavier coaches and players are out of control... WOW!

[jasonpeoria911]

Was watching the same thing, i've never seen that ruling called in my life. Usually once the ball hits the bottom of the net, the clock stops. Per the link below, in college basketball, the clock is suppose to stop on a made basket if the time is below 1 minute in 2nd half or overtime. In this situation, their should of been 1.2 seconds left. The clock froze at 0.9 seconds once the player already had the ball, that shouldn't of been an issue. The clock froze after the ball went in. These refs were wrong and I would bet money that Xavier is going to fight this big time.

In addition, I don't think Butler should of got that jump ball call with 20 seconds left and down by a point. Granted, the ref had the rear view look but when you zoom around to the other side, you can clearly see that the Butler players hand was on the arm and not the ball. He was trying to foul him but got lucky and got the jump ball due to the refs angle of the view.

http://www.betterbasketball.com/basketball-rules/basketball-rules-and-regulations.html

Jason

[amckillip]

Was watching the same thing, i've never seen that ruling called in my life. Usually once the ball hits the bottom of the net, the clock stops. Per the link below, in college basketball, the clock is suppose to stop on a made basket if the time is below 1 minute in 2nd half or overtime. In this situation, their should of been 1.2 seconds left. The clock froze at 0.9 seconds once the player already had the ball, that shouldn't of been an issue. The clock froze after the ball went in. These refs were wrong and I would bet money that Xavier is going to fight this big time.

In addition, I don't think Butler should of got that jump ball call with 20 seconds left and down by a point. Granted, the ref had the rear view look but when you zoom around to the other side, you can clearly see that the Butler players hand was on the arm and not the ball. He was trying to foul him but got lucky and got the jump ball due to the refs angle of the view.

http://www.betterbasketball.com/basketball-rules/basketball-rules-and-regulations.html

Jason

First, I'm uncertain as to the jump ball. Also in the game Butler had a basket waved off and the ball given to Xavier with no foul called at all. It was a joke...

The freezing of the clock JP911, had nothing to do with what you're stating though. It had to do with the fact the clock froze during the last possession when the ball went back on the other side of the court. I timed it and it seemed to freeze for about a second... So the call by the refs may have been correct. But I don't think it's fair to make the call.

What a weird game overall... At least the good guys won!