Originally posted by HuskerTimOmaha:
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Maybe GBR ASP or someone else way more familiar with this can explain in better detail what happened and why it happened. My best guess is, since two players weren't involved, it can't be reviewed. If that's the case, why that rule trumps the other doesn't make sense to me. IMO, there's no way this call shouldn't have been reviewed, especially at the point in the game it happened. Hopefully it's looked at to make the necessary changes to the review rules this off-season.
This post was edited on 3/15 8:06 PM by HuskerTimOmaha
Hey there. Yeah, it was either Steratore or Lamont Simpson that didn't catch the foot out of bounds. It was clearly on the line, a VERY tough break for MSU, as the call out of bounds there would have nearly sealed the deal for them. The reason it wasn't reviewed was because there was not an OB call on the court.
Re: the Friday night incident: the purpose of the review was to see if it MSU's inbounding pass from the sideline was tipped by the OSU player prior to the ball going out of bounds. During the original review, the officials noticed that the OSU player kicked the ball ever so slightly. So, they awarded the ball to MSU based on the kicking violation. They explained it to Matta, Matta went nuts. Then, they caught their own error, which is that a violation isn't review-able, and therefore the call had to be corrected. The ball was ruled out of bounds on OSU based on the player's foot touching the ball but it could not be retro-ruled a kicking violation as it was not ruled one on the court. So, instead of MSU getting the ball on the sideline nearest to the spot of the kicking violation, MSU got the ball underneath the basket.
I understand it looked like Matta was going nuts because he thought his team got screwed on that play. I was at the game, so I wasn't able to watch on TV, but based on what I was told, the replay showed an OSU touch. He was acting pretty upset for no good reason. Coaches at that level go nuts sometimes for some of the strangest reasons. This was one of those times.
Matta was going nuts 7 mins into the game, and it didn't appear to me that there was a whole lot for him to be so upset about. This is my own opinion, but I think he was concerned about Izzo having a bigger influence on the game's officials than he would have, so he was doing everything in his power to influence calls by acting the way he did. Take it for what it's worth.
I hope you and Sparky had a good time on Wednesday and Thursday. The B1G tourney won't be back in Chicago until at least 2019, unfortunately. If you have a chance to get away for Friday and Saturday games sometime, I highly recommend it.
