An NCAA official said today that last night the referees didn’t get to see the same replays that fans got to see at home of the controversial play involving Justise Winslow touching the ball before it went out of bounds.
ESPN.com has more:
“All four of our officials were involved in the review — Jeff Clark was our standby,” John Adams told SiriusXM College Sports Tuesday. “We never saw on our monitor what everybody saw at home, if you can believe that.”
Adams said he saw the broadcast angle only after the referees left the scorer’s table, and considered taking an unprecedented step — calling the officials back over to the monitor — before deciding against it.
“I saw it after they had left the monitor, and actually thought about: Is it in my prerogative to get up, run over the table, buzz the buzzer and tell them to come back and look?” Adams said. “That’s how critical I thought the play was, and concluded that this is a job for the guys on the floor and I’ve never done this before, why would I do it tonight and perhaps change the balance of the game?”
“We had been told time and time again, ‘Nobody at home will see anything you didn’t see.’ And I will tell you that’s not what happened last night. That is not an excuse. That is just laying it out for you.
The first question that comes from this is why the heck not? It’s not hard to show them the same replays that the broadcast has on a monitor down by the court. Pretty damning evidence of how terrible the whole replay system was throughout the tournament.
