Coach Phillip Small, CAA

@OfficialChipC @CoachHallNTF @WorstRefEvr Excellent explanation. 👏🏼

After a made basket, the window for a TO request by the scoring team technically closes when the throw-in starts (Pic 1 - NCAAM Rule 5-15.1.a). -> The throw-in starts when the ball is “at the disposal” of the team entitled to the throw-in (Pic 2 - NCAAM Rule 7-6.3). -> The ball is “at the disposal” when it is “available to a player after a goal and the official begins the throw-in count” (Pic 3 - NCAAM Rule 4-11.1.d). On the play in question, the covering official technically had not started the throw-in count, but that’s because the ball was inbounded as soon as the thrower-in was completely OoB.

The clock starting late here drives me bananas for Santa Clara. Review it and manually time it! Hell of a shot though

@OfficialChipC @WorstRefEvr This is fantastic!

I haven’t commented on it yet. Personally, with all that is going on at that point in the game, and the checklist the refs have to go through in that late game situation to prepare for the next play (1. Check game clock to ensure it stopped properly after made basket, 2. Peep BOTH benches to see if either HC is requesting a TO and that no one came off the bench, 3. Get into position for next play, 4. Refocus on players in each of their respective coverage areas), I feel it’s unrealistic to expect this delayed TO request to be granted there. If coach had requested the TO as soon as the ball passed through the net, I believe at least 2 of the officials (possibly all 3) would’ve seen it & granted it. He waited 2 seconds to request the TO though. By that time, the UK player already had the ball with one foot OoB, about to inbound it, and the officials had probably already checked “TO request” off their mental checklist when neither coach immediately requested one. The time between when coach first requested the TO until the throw-in pass is released, is maybe a half second. Even if we see the initial TO request, we still have to confirm it was legally requested prior to the ball being “at the disposal” of the thrower-in. So by the time we transfer our eyes from coach to inbounder, to confirm the ball is not yet as his disposal, he would’ve already released the throw-in pass. Half a second isn’t a lot of time to process all that. And to your point, even with this delayed TO request, if coach would’ve run toward the New Trail on the end line to request it, it very likely would’ve been granted. Tough play in a major moment.

This was part of Skip Holtz's eulogy to his father Lou Holtz. Skip said that when people came to visit his father in hospice, the very first thing Lou asked them was, “What can I do for you?” That's so powerful. Powerful enough for me to want to be a better person. God knew what he was doing when he made "Sunshine" that was Lou's nickname growing up. My heart hurts so much for so many reasons. Selfishly because Lou was the last man to win a National Championship at Notre Dame. Unselfishly because he meant SO much to SO many people. Not one seat in the Basiclica was vacant. There were people standing for an entire hour on the side of the pews. Plus so much more. I hope, truly, to become even half the man Lou Holtz was. A man whose first question was always, “What can I do for you?” A man whose light never dimmed, even in his final days. A man whose legacy will outlive all of us.

Kansas deciding not to storm the court after beating 23-0 No. 1 Arizona at home is some high level blue blood activity. I honestly don’t know if there’s another program in the county that wouldn’t storm in that situation.

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