NCAA Tournament: Thursday

Xavier keeps leaving the door slightly cracked for Ole Miss but they're too dumbly-coached to take advantage.
 
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The dumbest thing about the call was that there was one replay from on the floor that showed how clear the missed call was, yet they showed it one time and then never showed it again.
 
The overhead video is a bad angle to try to determine goaltending. The ball is moving across the very edge of the rim and when the player touches it, the overhead shot does not give any idea how far above the plane of the rim the bottom of the ball is. It could be about to touch the rim or it could be clearly flying over the rim without ever touching it. The angle from the shooter is the one where the judgement should be made. I would say from that angle it has a chance to graze the rim. And I guess based on the rules that means goaltending. Although realtime live I thought it was an airball.
 
Just saw it there after I posted. That's crazy.

I'm mobile but it's hard to tell whether he actually touched it.

Yeah he definitely touched it but by rule the ball has to have a chance to go in. That one didn't.
 
Good grief Ole Miss has the lowest total IQ of any team I've watched today, and I watched all of that UCLA-SMU game.
 
The real question is why aren't goal tending calls reviewable? At least in the last 2 minutes.
 
The overhead video is a bad angle to try to determine goaltending. The ball is moving across the very edge of the rim and when the player touches it, the overhead shot does not give any idea how far above the plane of the rim the bottom of the ball is. It could be about to touch the rim or it could be clearly flying over the rim without ever touching it. The angle from the shooter is the one where the judgement should be made. I would say from that angle it has a chance to graze the rim. And I guess based on the rules that means goaltending. Although realtime live I thought it was an airball.

I think it did graze the rim. Even from the overhead view you can see the ball change course two separate times. Once when it grazed the rim, and a second time when it was swatted away.
 

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