Purdue & Colo St

[TheFunkMonkey]

Did anybody see this? I'm reading the game recap, and I can't get a mental picture of how this happened. Morris hit a 3-pointer with 0.7 seconds left. Then the Rams deflected Purdue's inbounds pass, and then Morris got the ball and hit ANOTHER 3-pointer? How did Morris get the deflection *and* shoot the ball in 0.7 seconds?

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) -- The game appeared lost. Even Colorado State thought so.

His team trailing by four points with the final seconds ticking down, Colorado State's Micheal Morris did the unthinkable.

Morris hit two 3-pointers in the final seven-tenths of a second, rallying the Rams to a miraculous 71-69 win over No. 21 Purdue on Tuesday night.

"I've never seen anything quite like that," Purdue coach Gene Keady said.

Colorado State coach Dale Layer agreed.

"I credit our guys for hanging in there and persevering," Layer said. "We persevered, even in the face of a certain loss."

Colorado State (7-4) trailed 69-65 in the waning seconds before Morris hit a 3-pointer with 0.7 seconds left.

The Rams' Matt Williams then deflected Purdue's inbounds pass, and Morris put up a desperation 3-pointer from just beyond the arc that swished at the buzzer.

 

[Matt24]

Here is a video of it, it wasnt too clear on my connection, hopefully you can see it better.

http://www.9news.com/storyfull/sports.aspx?storyid=22600

 

[winkyduck]

as someone who has seen countless games in the pcaa/big west i am used to incompetent refs - so what happened in this game wasn't anything i haven't already seen before in the big west game.

last year (i believe) fullerton led santa barbara 62-61 w/1.2 seconds left. we (fullerton) had just made a FT to put us up 1. that meant SB had to go the length of the court.

so they throw a pass about 70 feet to their 3-point line. 2 players leap for the ball. one hits it. the ball bounces TWO TIMES, then a SB player picks it up - dribbles one more time and hits a trey before the buzzer sounded (musta been clock troubles) and the refs COUNTED the 3-point basket!

it was easily thr worst ever call i have ever seen in my life - and the refs knew it - for the ran off the court faster then carl lewis in his prime.

after this - i realized no matter what happens - don't be shocked. i ref HS hoops and am amazed just how awful my "colleeagues" are in higher levels.

i know that if i officiated big west hoops i'd be 1 of the very best ones out there - for the ones that do BW hoops blow!

 

[TheFunkMonkey]

Just saw the clip. If you had the Purdue ML, you got screwed. Purdue threw the ball in under the Colorado St basket. The Rams had a player on the baseline, defending the in-bounds pass. This player tipped the pass, but the ball continued towards the 3-point line. I'd say it was halfway between the top-of-key and the wing. Morris got the ball and immediately chucked it towards the basket.

I'll admit, it did happen fast. But once the ball was tipped @ the baseline, the clock should've started. There is no way Morris could've got a shot in 0.7 seconds. If the refs had *ANY* common sense, they wouldn't have allowed the basket.

This was from an AP article:

"Keady also doubted the Rams could have stolen a pass and gotten off a shot in less than a second, and said if the game had been televised, officials could have consulted replays."