Originally posted by RoyalShock
Originally posted by cjp27
http://blogs.kansas.com/shockwaves/2009/03/06/wichita-state-vs-creighton/
That is rational thinking, but the same thinking should then apply to the setting of the clock when determining the 1.9 left to play. The replay showed 1.9 and the ball had not yet touched the floor out of bounds. Allowing for the ball to hit and the ref to react would have amounted to at least another .4 seconds.
Now that's a BS cop out if I've ever heard one.
At least have the common courtesy to give us a reach around Dougie.
Final: CU 63, WSU 62. Here’s the explanation from MVC commissioner Doug Elgin. The officials, using a stopwatch, determined the clock started around .4 seconds late. They also determined Woodfox’s shot would have beaten the buzzer even if the clock started on time.
“We looked at in the truck and it was clear to us the shot left the shooter’s hand between 1.0 and 0.9 left,” Elgin said. “We took a stopwatch to the inbounding of the ball from the time the ball was touched to the time the clock started. The clock clearly started late, there’s no doubt about that. We determined there was at least 0.4 differential between the end of the game and when the shot left the hand. The shot was before the expiration of time (had the clock started properly).”
“We looked at in the truck and it was clear to us the shot left the shooter’s hand between 1.0 and 0.9 left,” Elgin said. “We took a stopwatch to the inbounding of the ball from the time the ball was touched to the time the clock started. The clock clearly started late, there’s no doubt about that. We determined there was at least 0.4 differential between the end of the game and when the shot left the hand. The shot was before the expiration of time (had the clock started properly).”
Now that's a BS cop out if I've ever heard one.
At least have the common courtesy to give us a reach around Dougie.
It sucks, but I think it would have counted anyway. There are a whole lot of other things that were in our control that could have kept that situation from ever happening.
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