The rule on a ball over backboard
UCLA's Josh Shipp made the game-winning shot against Cal but the ball went over the backboard. Should it have counted?
Here's the NCAA rule...
Rule 7 Section 1, Article 3...
The ball shall be out of bounds when it passes over the backboard from any direction.
Form my coaching days, I told my wife that should not count as we watched the game, and waited for the basket to be waved off. I know the rule for high school but was not sure for college. Was he behind or to the side when he shot the ball?????
Now that I look back in retrospect and see that was what the officials where reviewing near the end of regulation. They felt it was good. GREAT, GREAT GAME...I can not live through to many more of this hang on to your butt games, TO OLD.