The Dumbest Rule In College Hoops Cost Northwestern A Game Last Night And Chris Collins Should Be Losing His Mind On The NCAA To Change It

Just wanted to take a quick moment for people to understand the dumbest rule in sports (in my opinion, obviously people will argue). In college basketball refs have to call a goaltend in order to review it. They stop play, they can wait 4-5 minutes until a stoppage to review it, all of that to either add points, take it away, whatever. Obviously with the game clock under 10 seconds they reviewed it right away. They decided it wasn't goaltending despite them calling it on the court.

BUT LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENED. 

Northwestern had a tip-in to tie the game. No one around, as easy of a layup as you'll get. That got wiped off the board because the refs had to go to the monitor for roughly the 335th time in the last 2 minutes - like every college basketball game. Every out of bounds is reviewed, every second is reviewed, every foul is reviewed. We rarely just get to watch a good ending of basketball. It sucks. It's my least favorite thing in this sport. But this? This is criminal. I know people will say Northwestern/Penn State doesn't matter, except these are two teams who have a legit chance of making the NCAA Tournament. This is the type of game we'll look back on in March if one of them is on the bubble. A win goes a long way and who knows who wins in overtime or if there's a buzzer beater. All I know is Northwestern was robbed of it. 

The real story is how dumb this rule is. There needs to be a better review process - probably none at all. We don't review shitty handcheck calls that refs get wrong 65% of the time. Why are we reviewing goaltend? Either call it or don't. Let the game play on. Fucking stupid no matter how you look at it.