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Big East says ‘My bad’

This didn’t take long:

The Big East Conference acknowledges that two separate officiating errors occurred at the conclusion of the St. John’s vs. Rutgers game. Both missed violations should have caused the game clock to stop and a change of possession to occur prior to the end of the game. Neither error is reviewable or correctable under NCAA playing rules.

John Marinatto
Commissioner

Here’s the clip of the play in question. Pictures, and especially in this case, are better than words.

But speaking of words, Mike Rice handled the situation about as well as anyone could have expected afterward. He was honest, not quite happy, but also willing to accept mistakes happen.

Q. Mike, where did you get access to the YouTube so quickly and what did you see, the stepping out-of-bounds or the foul or —

COACH RICE: Again, the judgment calls I have to believe that they are right. I watched him step out on our SID’s iPad or iPhone. Yeah, it’s, again, it was 1.7 — whatever it was, he literally took three steps and — it was a mistake. I’m not going to — the game should have been one more play, does that mean we’re going to win? Certainly not. It was a mistake and that’s what happens in basketball. I made a ton of mistakes in the last 48 hours in my life.