Instant Replay And Refs Going To The Monitor For A Review Is Completely Ruining College Hoops (And Why Kim English Was Right Last Night)
Anyone who watches college basketball knows the real problem in the sport. It's not NIL, it's not transfer portal, it's not conference realignment. It's how the last 2 minutes of the game are officiated and take roughly 42 minutes to finish. We have to ban instant replay and review the way it's currently set up. Refs don't make calls anymore. They just blindly say something and then immediately go to the monitor. It's pointless, it ruins the game and as fans we are stuck watching some old dude stare too close to a small monitor. There's no flow to the game, teams are given free timeouts and we just want to watch basketball.
Go to last night. This is another major problem, refs have no idea what a foul on the floor vs shooting is. Seton Hall/Providence is a good example. This was called a foul on the floor:
Seems correct, right? Pretty simple play that we see every single night. EXCEPT, the refs went to the monitor for some reason and overturned it. Called it a shooting a foul. How! First off, why the fuck are the refs going to the monitor here? Second, how do you overturn that? It's why Kim English screaming ball don't lie when Seton Hall missed the free throws is correct:
Let's make it simple here. We just need to make it coaching challenges. We go 38 minutes without the refs sitting at the monitor to see what fingernail the ball went off. Why change it for the last 2 minutes? Coaches get 3 challenges a game. Seems simple. Anything to make college basketball better, because the instant replay system is broken. If that call went to the monitor and was overturned why wasn't this, the same night, in UCF/Kansas?
It's the one thing that every single person who watches college basketball agrees on. We live with bad/wrong calls the entire game, just stop going to the monitor and play ball. I'm fine not seeing a zoomed in view for 5 minutes to see if a fingernail touched the ball if it means we're just playing basketball.