NCAA Executives on Controversial Call from Duke vs. Wisconsin

Replay angles appeared to show a loose ball go off Duke's Justise Winslow late in the second half of Monday's national championship game. Questions were raised about whether or not all angles of the replay were available to officials during the game.

NCAA head of basketball officiating John Adams, appearing on Sirius XM College Sports Nation on Tuesday, said the officials didn't see the clearest possible angle on their monitor.

"We never saw, on our monitor, what everybody saw at home, if you can believe that," Adams said, via Tom Ley of Deadspin. "I saw it after they had left the monitor, and actually thought about, is it in my prerogative to get up, run over to the table, buzz the buzzer and tell them to come back and look?"

On Wednesday, Dan Gavitt, the NCAA's vice president of the men's basketball championship, told ESPN.com that officials did see the angle shown to viewers watching the game on CBS:

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Unfortunately, John misspoke yesterday. The officials did indeed have the camera angle that was shown on the CBS broadcast. It was the last angle they did see. They likely did not stay long enough with a review to see that angle magnified. But they made their determination based on the two-minute review and the camera angle that was shown on CBS and with that determined that there wasn't indisputable evidence to overturn the call. You need to have indisputable evidence by rule to change the call. The facts are they did have the angle the viewers had.

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Down 63-58 with less than two minutes remaining, Bronson Koenig attempted a scoop shot that did not touch the rim and went into a scrum of players beneath the basket. On initial review, it appeared Koenig knocked the ball out of bounds trying to strip it from Winslow, but closer angles clearly indicated Winslow's left hand changed the spin of the ball.

Duke was nonetheless awarded possession, and point guard Tyus Jones knocked down a three-pointer on the subsequent possession to all but put the final nail in Wisconsin's coffin.

"It's just a shame that it had to be played that way," Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan, commenting on the officiating, told CBS Sports' Tracy Wolfson in a postgame interview, per Zach Braziller of the New York Post.

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The officials drew a rash of criticism that went well beyond that critical call. Duke shot 20 free throws to Wisconsin's 10, and the notoriously foul-averse Badgers were whistled 15 times—a good portion of which came in the second half.

On the call in question, Adams implied the NCAA will review the incident to avoid a similar situation in the future.

"They'd already left. It will be one of the things we will follow up on," Adams said, per Sam Cooper of Yahoo Sports. "We've been told time and time again that nobody at home will see anything you didn't see. And I will tell you that's not what happened last night. That's not an excuse; that's just laying it out for you."

Gavitt's comments suggest this is inaccurate and that the officials and viewers saw the same replays.

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