I don't hate Duke. I looked at the video over and over. Your answer changed from "it clearly didn't touch" to "it clearly didn't touch because of no obvious change in trajectory or spin." Your apparent love of Duke has you seeing things I don't see. Your declaration smacks of pro-Duke bias. You even went so far as to declare the refs of having anti-Duke sentiment.
Bottom line, Duke advanced to the Sweet 16. UCF went home.
No, you misunderstood what I said. Maybe I didn't phrase it very clearly. Please allow me to explain again.
From the bottom angle (2-second mark), it *seems* ambiguous but you can still see that there was no trajectory or spin change, which would have happened if the ball had touched. That's why I said even this more ambiguous camera angle *still* supports that the ball didn't touch the rim.
From the top angle (10-to-12-second mark), it is *clear* that the ball did not touch. Don't you see the chunk of white court floor that you can see between the ball and the rim??? No need to look at trajectory or spin, here. You can see that the ball is a good inch from the rim, at least.
Duke advanced to the Sweet 16 because we still won the game, *despite* the refs' blunder.
Yes, I love Duke. Yes, I'm a Duke fan. So what? Had the ball touched, I'd have said so. It simply didn't, and the 10-to-12-second mark makes it crystal clear.
If the refs had any pro-Duke bias, like people keep saying they do, it would be easy for them to say "the top view is indisputable video evidence, the call is reversed, the basket doesn't count, and it is Duke's ball."
The fact that they went with the "no indisputable video evidence" (although it doesn't get any more indisputable than this angle from the top) shows that they are NOT pro-Duke.
It's funny how people only complain of the dubious calls that go for Duke. They always conveniently forget all the dubious calls that go against Duke.
Every game, the same thing happens. Refs are fallible given that they are human beings, so sometimes there are some wrong calls or no-calls that favor Duke. All hell breaks lose and all the haters hate, saying "see, it's a conspiracy, the NCAA wants Duke in the Final Four." But those same games, there are also wrong calls or no-calls that go against Duke. Funny how the haters never mention those.
Particularly in this game, this fail to reverse the call as they should have done given the indisputable evidence, made at that point of the game, very probable that UCF would win. It's a miracle that we still could pull off the comeback. It wasn't thanks to the refs that we won. It was actually against the refs.
Despite that, I've seen comments that Duke plays with 5 men + the refs. That's outrageous. If the refs were pro-Duke they wouldn't have made this decision that all but eliminated Duke - lucky for us, we were still good enough to comeback and win, against all odds.
