Running 2023-24 NCAA Basketball Thread

Back in the day when I was a soccer ref in my teens we had a presentation from a FIFA-certified ref - he carried a pressure gauge to check the balls and checked the lines before every game. I would have thought there would be some quick and dirty tool to check rim height, and distances. Etc for NCAA officials. You hear about messed up basketball hoops now and then.

 

The problem was that line of thinking is that there's nothing in it for the NCAA to do that.

Did they save money? No. Unlike the weight room thing you mentioned, the line being wrong is not some cost-cutting thing they tried to sneak by on the fly. The floor costs the same whether right or wrong.

And again? How many times have you seen a court measured before any game? My guess is that one of the player or coaches noticed it when it got played on initially and that's why they had officials walking the court for the next game to try to figure it out. If they were trying to get away with it, why go through that humiliating visual if it was all a charade?

I think it was a mistake on the contractor's part that could have easily happened at the men's tournament.

And besides, the bad PR the NCAA got for it more than out-weighs any other consideration that suggests they were trying to shaft the women's tournament.

To your point, though, their past actions have set them up for distrust. That part of it I do get. However, I truly think it was just a fuck-up that had nothing to do with the gender involved.

 

I think it's called a tape measure.

 

What it is, is a reflection on the resources devoted to the mens tourney vs. the resources devoted to the womens tourney. Maybe the vendor is cheaper than the vendor for the men. That's a reflection of the NCAA and the blame lies at their feet, they reap the $$, they get the blame.

 

As has been mentioned, the same vendor did the floors for both genders.

 

The 3-point line snafu did a great job of making everyone forget the Chattanooga alumnae who got assigned to ref her old school in the first round.

I don’t think the NCAA is conspiring to keep the women’s game down. I think they run it like a rinky dink hot dog stand with attitudes you’d expect from minimum wage burnout cases.

 

Alumna. Alumnae is plural.

 

See? Sloppiness just like that!

 

As for the breakout room fiasco - would it have been too much trouble to say, do it IN the arena? It isn't like Rocket Mortgage is lacking spaces.


https://www.rocketmortgagefieldhouse.com/book-your-event

 

That's fine. Would not have been an option on the men's side.