2015 NCAA Tournament

[Mavric]

Well now...

 

 

Dan Gavitt, the NCAA's vice president of the men's basketball championship, said on ESPN's "Outside the Lines" on Wednesday that officials actually did see the same video replay that viewers at home saw on the questionable out-of-bounds call in the national title game, contradicting what John Adams, the NCAA's supervisor of officials, had said Tuesday.

"All four of our officials were involved in the review -- Jeff Clark was our standby," Adams told SiriusXM College Sports on Tuesday. "We never saw on our monitor what everybody saw at home, if you can believe that."

The questionable call came with just under two minutes left in the title game Monday and Duke leading Wisconsin by five. Viewers at home saw a replay showing that the ball went off the fingertips of Duke's Justise Winslow. But the ball was awarded to Duke, not Wisconsin. Officials Joe DeRosa, Michael Stephens and Pat Driscoll conferred for nearly two minutes to review it. Stephens was heard telling the CBS announcing crew that the video was inconclusive.

"Unfortunately, John misspoke yesterday," Gavitt told ESPN.com after his OTL appearance. "The officials did indeed have the camera angle that was shown on the CBS broadcast. It was the last angle they did see. They likely did not stay long enough with a review to see that angle magnified. But they made their determination based on the two-minute review and the camera angle that was shown on CBS and with that determined that there wasn't indisputable evidence to overturn the call. You need to have indisputable evidence by rule to change the call. The facts are they did have the angle the viewers had."

 

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