Wraith Posted February 16, 2007 Share Posted February 16, 2007 Surprised nobody has mentioned it yet. One of the most bizarre yet strangely satisfying endings to a basketball game I've ever seen. Buffalo is down 2 points on their last possession. There are 1.6 seconds between the shot clock and the game clock. Parnell Smith takes a fade away jumper as the shot clock expires and comes up short, getting nothing but air. The time keeper is a little slow on the trigger and the game clock sounds a moment later. The Bowling Green coach hustles his team off the court into the locker room (to the point of spastically flailing his arms around to get their attention, and skipping the normal post-game handshake). Reggie Witherspoon freaks out, gets the referees to review the tape, and they add the missing time back on the clock. Bowling Green refuses to return to the court in a timely manner and a technical foul for delay of game is called. Yassin Idbihi goes to the line and sinks both free throws to send the game to overtime. The UB crowd was insane. Bowling Green returns to the floor for overtime where they promptly get demolished and UB wins by 8. After the game, Bowling Green's coach goes nuts, dropping the f-bomb several times in a rant about the officials. He later claims that a referee told him the game was over, and that he hustled his players off the court because of the weather. The entire thing is assinine because any coach should know that there was a time differential between the shot clock and game clock and that the clock stops when the violation is called and does not resume until the ball is inbounded again. The "tape review" wasn't even necessary as the game can NEVER END on a shot clock violation! Full story is here: http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20070214/1007863.asp Pretty entertaining! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eball Posted February 16, 2007 Share Posted February 16, 2007 Good luck getting someone to respond to a college basketball post around here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cornerville Posted February 16, 2007 Share Posted February 16, 2007 Good luck getting someone to respond to a college basketball post around here. especially when both teams involve stink. It is a shame what the sports media and sports books have done to the college basketball season. so much emplasis on March madness and winning your pool and betting the games that people feel the season is only 3 weeks long. Disgraseful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven in MD Posted February 16, 2007 Share Posted February 16, 2007 That is how Witherspoon wins game...needs a lucky bounce. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cornerville Posted February 16, 2007 Share Posted February 16, 2007 That is how Witherspoon wins game...needs a lucky bounce. Imagine if UB was 18-6 and lost this game on this call... This thread would be 500+ replys by now... But since a Buffalo team was not screwed and benefited....noneth speaketh of it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadBuffaloDisease Posted February 16, 2007 Share Posted February 16, 2007 Sounds like the right thing was done. If the BG coach was SO worried about weather, he would have told his kids to skip the post-game shower and get on the bus. He got what was coming to him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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