NCAA STATEMENT: Says nothing

[A-town Cy]

Shove it up your ***, John

 

[lakeliving]

Thank you sir, may I have another..................

 

[3TrueFans]

At least they aren't apologizing. That makes me feel even worse. It was a bad call, but it was a tough call. Hard to really ride the officials in this case. I don't envy them at all.

Well it's kind of their job.

 

[ken]

Thomas should've been called for a foul before the block against Craft anyway.

 

[ZJohnson]

Before he left the floor...riiiiigghht. How about the hack you missed from Thomas before he even ******* touched Craft?

 

[Cyclones01]

Can someone please explain to me why some calls are reviewable and some aren't? Is it to protect the refs so they don't look like they get as many calls wrong?

 

[Wesley]

Response from John Adams, NCAA National Coordinator of Men's Basketball Officiating, to pool reporter in Dayton regarding Ohio State-Iowa State game:

"I spoke with the official, and he determined the defender established legal guarding position outside the restricted area prior to the offensive players leaving the floor to start his shot. When asked, the official said he did not see the defender's foot over the restricted area line. By rule, this is not a reviewable play."

Blind is blind. The foot was hovering over the line.

 

[kingcy]

Can someone please explain to me why some calls are reviewable and some aren't? Is it to protect the refs so they don't look like they get as many calls wrong?

I dont think any fouls are reviewable.

 

[ISUCyclones2015]

I dont think any fouls are reviewable.

Flagrant ones

 

[kingcy]

Flagrant ones

All they do is determine how bad the foul is. Not if it was a foul or not.

 

[price26]

The more I think about it the more I think about the ability of a "secondary" defender to come all the way across the lane to try and establish legal guarding position.

I think the NCAA needs to train these officials that the "secondary" defender better be waiting for him at that spot when the offensive player gets there, rather than a play like this where Craft, at best, gets there and puts his feet down right as Clyburn is taking off.

When it's bang bang like that play, some benefit of the doubt has to be given to the offensive player.

 

[Pitt_Clone]

I can't imagine an official statement more pointless than this one. I've been trying.

 

[xr4ticlone]

I wish my company did things like that.

We went back to the employee and he said he didn't...

steel the money...
back over the guy in the parking lot...
lose the deal...
not show up for work...

and it's all good now.

Oh sure we could examine the evidence...but he assured us that was the way it happened....Any more questions?

 

[Spam]

What was the NCAA trying to achieve by making a statement? And what if they had not made the statement? Is it just because the head of officials went about making make some public comments about the call after the game, and the NCAA thus felt compelled to make an official statement?

 

[cyclone87]

That was pointless, of course the ref is going to say he made the right call.

 

[Daserop]

Add refereeing to jobs you can be wrong multiple times and still keep your job. I they have lost my respect, especially that over the years there seems to be blatant favoritism.

 

[Blandboy]

FIFY

 

[Blandboy]

Add refereeing to jobs you can be wrong multiple times and still keep your job. I they have lost my respect, especially that over the years there seems to be blatant favoritism.

They're all former meteorologists. They know which way the wind blows ...

 

[Psyclone Brian]

so if the official makes the fantastic claim that he never saw the foot thing... Why the hell did he make the call? League of officials said he had a good angle on it?

My other gripe (AND THIS IS REVIEWABLE!) is if the ball left Clyburns hand before the contact. And it clearly did.
Oh well, beating a dead horse.

 

[WAP311]

Forget Craft and where he was. What about the other defender who bodied Clyburn when he went up? That's where the foul should have been called.