Rutgers Basketball Video: Watch St Johns Win Controversial Big East Tourney Game

The video of this game is painful to watch. It is beyond obvious that Rutgers got robbed of a chance to inbound the ball near midcourt with roughly two seconds left to try and tie or win the game.

It's one thing for officials to blow a foul call; maybe they had a bad angle or they were distracted by something else—both reasonable excuses.

There really is no excuse for the end of the Rutgers-St. John's Big East Tournament game.

It's not even one blatantly missed call—it is two.

St. John's forward Justin Brownlee grabs the errant inbounds pass and begins running away with it like he is Barry Sanders.

He takes at least three steps without dribbling. The only reason the traveling is not worse is because the steps don't count once you go out of bounds.

Replays showed that his foot touched the out-of-bounds line with 1.7 seconds on the clock.

How does a ref miss that? It had to have been the most obvious call all game.

The Big East issued a statement saying they "missed two violations."

John Adams, head of NCAA officiating, told ESPN.com what we are all thinking: That the misses were "unacceptable."

He went onto say that the referees' future is uncertain. "We'll notify the guys sometime Sunday if they're working or not," Adams said.

Even fans of St. John's cannot be happy with this ending. Well, Justin Brownlee probably is.

What was he thinking? Maybe these refs owed him a favor, because he is a blown call away from surpassing Chris Webber's "give me a timeout" boneheaded-ness.