2 point game at the time of the horrible call to overturn that and could've been an epic finish
Still could have been. Down 4 Francis missed a good look for 3 from the corner. If that drops, it's a different finish.
What a great game! With a terrible ending...
UVA deserved to win as much as TT did, but TT didn't get a fair shot. The change in tenor on the board, with that call, was direct and obvious. The mood here went from exhilaration and joy about a great game, to befuddled BS.
Congrats UVA...
Alsso Va got a BS held ball in the 2H and then scored. Then there should have been a held ball later, no call, and Va scored. TT got screwed in regulation. Sham title for Va.
Really need to re-write the rule to state that when the ball is directed out of bounds by the intentional act of swatting the ball away by said player, that an inadvertent touch by the player who had prior possession shall be deemed inconsequential.
I agree. It’s different if the ball gets knocked away by the defense and the offensive player bobbles the ball trying to save it, but to have it knocked away intentionally and you touch the ball last as a result is complete bullshit
As a referee and a fan, the replay OOB rulings are ridiculous. There is human judgement, correct and in error, all game long. One could say that those two OOB replay calls were the 2 biggest calls of the game. And they got the first one technically wrong by Odiase's hand grazing the ball clear as day. Maybe change the rule so that it reads "violation by team directing the ball OOB, regardless of minor touch by either team"? I don't know, but hurts to be on receiving end of that as we all know
Whatever happened to "indisputable video evidence" anyway? I don't know how you could say he was definitively the last to touch it...all I saw was like a blurry frame or two where maybe the TT guy had a pinky on it. Shitty way to close out the game.
It's CompleteLunacy.
It's not even a question of having indisputable evidence or not. Refs call that ball off the defender every single time as they should. The rule needs to be changed. Unless the ball hits off another part of the body or the offensive player touches it in a purposeful act of retaining possession or preventing it from going out of bounds, the ball is off the defender who hits it away from the offensive player's hand(s).
Who caused the ball to go out of bounds? The offensive guy or defensive guy? It is so fricking dumb.
hopefully, there will be a rule change. knock it out of the hand, offense ball automatically. another body part, defense ball. pretty simple. ncaa ain't too bright tho.
UVa was the better team, but that reversal on the out-of-bounds with about a minute left was all sorts of screwy.
14 for 14 free throws in OT. VA's best player - Hunter - had his career best game.
That's how you win a National Championship.
Your best players step up in their biggest game and win it.
The ball was off Tech both times. It was called off Tech once. Any right thinking person believes that in the spirit of basketball, Tech should have been awarded the ball both times.
Even if everyone agreed the calls were ultimately “right” it detracts from the flow of the game.
Face it. Replay is a failure and should be eliminated in all forms from all sports.
This has to be a troll post, right?
I would rather the call is gotten right than preserve the advantage awarded to a team by human error and allow it to persist for a nebulous, questionable reason such as maintaining the flow of the game.
Let me ask you this: if replay could fix the ref's error on Trey Burke's clean block of Peyton Siva's lay-up attempt, would you take it?
I would take it 1,000 times.
Instead, that play fucked us. A great defensive play usually spurs an offensive explosion. We were robbed of a momentum-changing play when the game was hanging in the balance.
A troll post I suppose in the sense that I know my view will get a reaction, but it is sincere.
Would current replay rules have helped Trey or are we now requesting more replay? I guess I would be happy if replay always benefited my team but to answer your question directly, I am not swayed by your hypothetical. I prefer to live with the injustice and human error. We have injustice and human error in the the replay era, so replay didn’t solve the issue.
wow, what a game. the execution level on offense was SO DAMN HIGH, against good defenses. It was something to watch.
In spite of everything, this game was won on offense.
Kind of random, but the only thing more annoying than instant reply in basketball is when the clock doesn’t work or start immediately after tip off and it takes 20 min to fix it. You just had all fucking day to make sure it works and it miraculously takes a shit right before tip off? My god that’s the most annoying thing ever.
Interesting game, sadly with only one of the two teams I expected to be there. Best part for me was catching some of the game on radio - John Thompson is great.
You think Thompson is great on the radio? No fucking way!!! He's sounds as old and outdated as he is, and he doesn't add anything to the broadcast that a color guy is supposed to bring. Nothing but dry, emotionless, drivel-type stories from someone that left the game 25 years ago. No thanks!
It sucks to make it all the way to OT in the National Championship game, only to lose.
Thank God we won our OT National Championship game. If we had lost it, it would torment me every single day.
Does anyone else find “One Shining Moment” to be incredibly hokey? I’ve just never gotten it. The song is terrible.
"One Shining Moment" is one of the best things in all of sports.
Written by a guy who lives in Ann Arbor...
Unfortunately I think the dude was in Lansing when he wrote it
He saw a couch burning.
Can't believe none of the announcers made a stink about that travesty of justice. Sure looked like the fix was in for Virginia. In the replay sequence, the only clear thing that happened was Moretti getting hacked by Kyle Guy two seconds before the ball was swatted out of bounds.
This rule is worse than the 'complete a catch' rule.
Of course the ball is going to go off the holder of the ball. His fingers are all over the ball so you are better off not possessing the ball in many situations. It's perverse in it's application. It rewards another team for not having the ball and just swatting away in the last 2 minutes.
They really need to change that rule. It's awful. I feel bad for Tech but then I can say the same thing about how UM has been screwed on this call twice before at least. My question is who has gone ahead with this interpretation and why?
I'm ok with it IF the ball bounces off a shoe or a thigh or something, but not the fingers. That's just dumb.
Teams played great but the officiating stunk. Just awful. Was this a B1G crew on the call?
I am generally in favor of replay but here its use would be enhanced if it would include the totality of the play...and have violations directly involved in the play, and preceding the "question", be allowed to over-rule the reason the play is being reviewed. Like, yes, the ball went off player A but the reason it did was because his shoulder got dislocated by player B...foul on player B.
Otherwise, a tremendous display of basketball...and the whole interscholastic athletic competition deal.