) gets overshadowed. Some guys that we're going to need next year had some awfully impressive nights. Hamblet and Miller stand out, and Marschall and Clements contributed a bunch too. I also see CrazyFan's point now, and big time. It's all about matching up now, and it's more favorable with some teams than others. Then again, Miami(OH) could get a little streak going and a loss tonight could help us, if that's the scenario you're laying down. I still lean more toward J4H's side, but the seeding argument certainly has merit.
While I've got the wheels spinning... I thought a lot about what Warthog mentioned on the drive home tonight. One of my biggest pet peeves is using video review to fix the human element of clock functions. Not that it isn't necessary at times, but that they break it down by tenths of a second with slo-mo. If a clock keeps running after a basket, they review and stop the clock at the point the ball first enters the basket part of the cylinder. There should be some reaction time involved there, too. Have the official watch the play with a "stop" button. Play happens, press the button when you would have blown a whistle, or counted the basket as "complete".
I didn't see or hear tonight's game until it was too late to know the particulars aside from those discussed earlier about the shot/game clocks, but it seems totally feasible that inside .6 seconds, both clocks could have run out without getting out the super slo-mo. If the clock stops regardless on a shot clock violation, shouldn't the game clock be set to stop along with the shot clock hitting zero? Maybe not all scoreboards are built with that compatibility, but if it's the rule, maybe they should be. Or put tenths up with the shot clock. It's rare enough that it probably won't make it as a rule, but it could also come up in a lot bigger situation than this.
On a similar note, and this pins it a bit more on the officials, did they take the game situation into account when making that decision? A game this past weekend I was watching was decided going to the final seconds, but a guy got fouled, apparently before the horn, going in for a final layup. Ref blew the foul, but when the horn went, waved the game over. Seems like a very similar situation, except that this game was in reach. While a pair of free throws in an eight (or whatever) point game make no difference as compared to a steal and toss at the basket (pretty feasible with the ball under UB's basket on the inbounds if BG wasn't careful), for the sake of consistency, shouldn't everything be played out? It seems like the officials took an awful lot of the game in their hands in the closing seconds.
Unfortunately, for whatever reason, BG may not have been totally free of blame.
I'll still look at some of the positives. Nate Miller is/will be a stud.
). W/L's are secondary to showing some life. The team showed some life last night. If anything, this debacle can give them something to rally around.
