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Pastimes : 2019 NCAA College Basketball March Madness
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To: Bonefish who wrote (263)4/6/2019 9:55:32 PM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell  Read Replies (2) of 344
 
If you watch the refs on every play, they are part of designed (in this case, 3-man) rotations. Ditto for baseball. Not sure about football, but I would think so. By rotation, I don't mean just going to a spot and staying there, but rather moving relative to a given spot depending on where the ball is. In other words, they just don't randomly roam around or follow, say, the ball carrier around the court. Obviously the rotations are designed to allow them the best angles, but obviously they can't see every angle.

I'm wondering if basketball might ever consider challenges. I can't remember anyone ever bringing that up before since most controversies are about judgment calls. Even still, being in the last two minutes, this would be one of those cases where the booth would need to initiate a replay. But is a double dribble technically a judgment call? If not, then we'd also have to throw in traveling as well.

- Jeff
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