Mount St. Mary's gets a gift

[MTS]

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In MSM's quarterfinal win against St. Francis NY on March 5th - six men were on the court when the Mount was playing defense. Down 3 they steal the inbounds pass cut the lead to 1 and eventually win the game. That play altered the entire NEC tournament. What an embarrassment for the league. Nothing can be done now but wow.. I believe if the officials had caught that SFU is given two technical FTs and if they make them the game is likely over. Instead MSM won that game and two more and now are in the NCAA tournament. Yikes.

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Mar 12, 2014 17:47:13 GMT -5 MTS said:

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In MSM's quarterfinal win against St. Francis NY on March 5th - six men were on the court when the Mount was playing defense. Down 3 they steal the inbounds pass cut the lead to 1 and eventually win the game. That play altered the entire NEC tournament. What an embarrassment for the league. Nothing can be done now but wow.. I believe if the officials had caught that SFU is given two technical FTs and if they make them the game is likely over. Instead MSM won that game and two more and now are in the NCAA tournament. Yikes.

I've always said it is better to be lucky than good! In their defense, the zebras were likely looking for illegal hand checking while keeping an eye (I assume each had at least one) on the charging circle (does anyone have any clue what that area is called?) while trying to count to 10 and then to 3 without calculators. It is amazing that this kind of stuff doesn't happen more often.

[mrsiena]

I checked the box score and 2 of the refs, Robert Riley and Bill McCarthy, ref MAAC games. I'm not sure of the 3rd ref. Name is Testa.

[IndianSaint]

Mar 12, 2014 18:04:00 GMT -5 @misspractice said:

Mar 12, 2014 17:47:13 GMT -5 MTS said:

deadspin.com/mt-st-marys-wins-ncaa-bid-after-earlier-win-with-six-1542273810?utm_campaign=socialflow_deadspin_twitter&utm_source=deadspin_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

In MSM's quarterfinal win against St. Francis NY on March 5th - six men were on the court when the Mount was playing defense. Down 3 they steal the inbounds pass cut the lead to 1 and eventually win the game. That play altered the entire NEC tournament. What an embarrassment for the league. Nothing can be done now but wow.. I believe if the officials had caught that SFU is given two technical FTs and if they make them the game is likely over. Instead MSM won that game and two more and now are in the NCAA tournament. Yikes.

I've always said it is better to be lucky than good! In their defense, the zebras were likely looking for illegal hand checking while keeping an eye (I assume each had at least one) on the charging circle (does anyone have any clue what that area is called?) while trying to count to 10 and then to 3 without calculators. It is amazing that this kind of stuff doesn't happen more often.

I'd be surprised if this would ever occur at a Siena home game. We die hard fans would have noticed and yelled it out so the coaching staff could protest it that same night .

[DelmartianEd]

...charging circle (does anyone have any clue what that area is called?)...

Officially, "restricted area" or "restricted area arc." FIBA gives it the far too literal name "no-charge semicircle." Charge circle is a pretty common term though.

[IndianSaint]

Mar 12, 2014 22:44:02 GMT -5 DelmartianEd said:

Mar 12, 2014 21:58:09 GMT -5 IndianSaint said:

...charging circle (does anyone have any clue what that area is called?)...

Officially, "restricted area" or "restricted area arc." FIBA gives it the far too literal name "no-charge semicircle." Charge circle is a pretty common term though.

Hey, how did Misspractice's comment get attributed to me?

[DelmartianEd]

Mar 14, 2014 16:18:57 GMT -5 IndianSaint said:

Hey, how did Misspractice's comment get attributed to me?

Oh, sorry, I took out the wrong tag! I've just edited out the attribution altogether.