At first, i thought it was an airball and a loose ball foul on UCLA. The UCLA player under the basket push off the SMU player (who got called for goaltending) with his elbow.
That ain't the right call. Neither was the foul call on the clean steal by Prince. 2 blown calls. Ours won't get any attention bc we choked.
The ball has to have a chance of going in to be called goaltending, but clearly that ball was going to nick the rim and not go in.
The 11-seed UCLA Bruins became the third double-digit seed to win Thursday afternoon, knocking off the 6-seed SMU Mustangs. Only 31.5 percent of brackets in the ESPN Tournament Challenge picked the Bruins to win. With this result, there are just 14,797 (0.12 percent) perfect brackets after only six games of the NCAA tournament. Also worth noting, only 1.3 percent of brackets picked all three of UAB, Georgia State and UCLA to win in the round of 64. http://espn.go.com/blog/collegebasketballnation/post/_/id/105085/tournament-challenge-just-14797-brackets-still-perfect-after-ucla-win
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It looked short while watching it live. I had it muted, was there any discussion of the call on the broadcast? Sucks for the Ponies to go out that way. Finally started moving the needle on campus and in Dallas too.
All that said, I've seen balls nick the rim and bounce in. I think SMU had 4 things go wrong in the last minute. I was disappointed, but they had their chances to secure and win the game. turned it over, missed two shots, and the goal tend. But the real bummer is all they needed to do was stay in front of Alford for the entire game and they win.
God, this is so heartbreaking for us. WTF. Now we have to deal with this NCAA investigation. Just can't get worse than this. We need to get some quality bigs in for next season to go along our reloaded backcourt and hopefully get back to the dance next March. Good season Ponies!
So basically you have to make the argument now that if that was an offensive player and he grabbed it from that angle and dunked it in, that would be offensive basket interference? I doubt that would've been called.
It was going to hit the rim and the SMU dude touched the net before the ball came down. It had no shot at going in, but by rule, that's goaltending.
But the ball has to be determined to have a chance of going in as well: I don't see any way that the refs can argue that it had a possibility of going in.
