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Si. com is a daily of mine. Far too East coast for me, I sometimes wonder why. Then I come across the picture on the right courtesy of their website and I know why.



Upon close observation and with the help of PowerPoint drawn arrows, one can see that when Gordon Heyward shot the final shot of this year's NCAA Tournament that at one-tenth of a second left on the official game clock, the ball was still on his finger tips. The 00.3 shown by the left arrow was the arena clock--unofficial.



Now let's suppose the shot is made giving the hometown Butler Bulldogs the championship. Of course it would have to be reviewed. Overturned by copious eyes.

Bedlam in Indy I'm afraid. Shades of the 1972 Olympic basketball game when the USSR stole the gold medal from the US due to poor, poor officiating and the handing of the game clock.

Only this was on Butler's home court, basically.

I announced high school basketball for 10 years. On more than one occasion I observed officials tell the timekeeper seated right in front of me, that as soon as the horn sounded, they wanted an escort off the floor and into the locker room. Fortunately, there were no incidents in my tenure when the games were over.

But I'm certain that had that scenario transpired, there would have been a mob scene in Hoosierville.