Mike Davis Sucks....

Indiana hoping NCAA selection committee takes Charlotte loss into account

This is almost laughable.....

Indiana hoping NCAA selection committee takes Charlotte loss into account

MICHAEL MAROT
Associated Press


INDIANAPOLIS - Indiana enters Tuesday night's game at Ohio State with a record of 11-10 even though coach Mike Davis believes the Hoosiers are really 12-9.

The discrepancy stems from a Dec. 22 game when Charlotte's Brendan Plavich hit a half-court shot at the buzzer that officials counted after reviewing the replay. Charlotte won 74-73.

Two weeks later, the NCAA issued a rules interpretation explaining how officials should properly review replay clocks to avoid any future errors.

Ed Bilik, the NCAA's secretary editor for the men's basketball rules committee, acknowledged Monday that a new rules interpretation of how to use replay that was distributed in early January was at least partially done because of the Indiana-Charlotte game.

The only question that really matters now is how the NCAA selection committee views it next month.

"We certainly take every bit into account, so we'd probably look at it the same way you would a player, who was at less than full strength, may or may not influence the outcome of a game," committee chairman Bob Bowlsby said Monday without speaking directly to Indiana's situation. "But we're sure not going to count a loss as a win. That can't happen."

In Davis' opinion, there's no doubt it should.

After the Hoosiers beat Minnesota 71-56 on Saturday, Davis and his players were repeatedly asked about their NCAA tournament possibilities. All acknowledged they needed a minimum of three or four wins in their last six regular-season games and the Big Ten tournament to have a chance.

Still, Davis insisted the loss to Charlotte shouldn't count against Indiana.

"That was a win," Davis said. "I look at that game as a win, I'm not even counting that game as a loss."

Although the comment drew laughter, Davis might have a point.

Bilik said the problem with using a television clock, which is what the game officials viewed in the Charlotte game, is that the graphic can be as much two-tenths of a second slower than the game clock. Bilik could not say with certainty whether that was the case on Dec. 22, but acknowledged it had been an issue the rules committee was concerned about.

"We had been looking into this in regard to the actual game clock not being in sync with the graphic before this happened," he said. "But we had a game or two that moved this whole thing ahead a little quicker."

The new rule requires officials to discuss whether the television clock is in sync with the scoreboard clock before the game starts. Bilik said the NCAA also has asked production crews to provide wide-angle shots of the scoreboard clock in the final seconds to avoid future problems.

But Indiana's NCAA tournament chances remain murky regardless of the Charlotte game.

The Hoosiers are just 1-6 on the road, 1-1 in neutral court games and 9-3 at home - all numbers the selection committee considers.

Other factors include their No. 88 spot in the Ratings Percentage Index and a schedule strength that ranks No. 21 despite five losses to ranked opponents - No. 1 Illinois, No. 3 Kentucky, No. 4 North Carolina, No. 18 Connecticut and No. 23 Charlotte. The Hoosiers also lost to Notre Dame and Iowa, which have also been ranked this season.

And although Indiana could make a stronger case to the selection committee with a strong finish, the Hoosiers only notable wins have come against No. 20 Wisconsin and Minnesota, a team that had no Top 25 votes this week. Unless, of course, you move Charlotte into the 'W' column - something the committee likely won't do.

"We have an opportunity to review lots of information," said Bowlsby, athletic director at the University of Iowa. "But you can't make someone who has 18 wins only have 17 wins."

 

The TV clock is a shot of the scoreboard.

 

True, but he's got a valid point.

There is a camera that is shooting the clock. That camera has a cable connecting it to a production truck where everything is put together and you get the infamous shot of the game with the clock in the corner. It's almost impossible for a video signal to go through that many sources and not have any delay whatsoever.

 

You ever watch the game but listen to the radio?

 

True but the camera taping the play would also be subject to similar time delay. So theoretically both the view of the timeclock and the game play could be delayed .2 seconds in which case that means they were in synch timewise and the final play was correct.

 

Not that Davis is doing anything other than whining to save his job, but the IU player's go ahead shot cleared the hoop with 1.3 secs left and the timekeeper ran off .6 seconds during a dead ball TO situation.

So it cuts both ways. Suck it up Mike.

 

QCH will have to help me out here, but I don't think that is neccessarily true. The camera taking the picture of the clock has to go through all that cabling and maybe even up to the sattelite and back, which is what causes the delay. The replay would still have the delay built in.

 

Yeah, you are talking about a recording within a recording so the delay is still there

 

Two months later, still crying.

 

That's what I was pissed about. If IU had gone and won the rest of their games he wouldn't even be complaining. Anyway, as long as he's the only one counting it as a win I'm not worried about it. There's no way they'll take our W away, no way.