BC Sweet 16 game: Sean Williams blocks final shot to force OT

[Johnny Mac]

hey im a sr at BU

How'd they do in the tourney? :singing:

 

[pats1]

Here's the NBA rule on goaltending:

http://www.nba.com/analysis/rules_11.html?nav=ArticleList


Section I-A Player Shall Not:
a. Touch the ball or the basket ring when the ball is using the basket ring as its lower base.
EXCEPTION: If a player near his own basket has his hand legally in contact with the ball, it is not a violation if his contact with the ball continues after the ball enters the cylinder, or if, in such action, he touches the basket.
b. Touch the ball when it is above the basket ring and within the imaginary cylinder.
c. For goaltending to occur, the ball, in the judgment of the official, must have a chance to score.
d. During a field goal attempt, touch a ball after it has touched any part of the backboard above ring level, whether the ball is considered on its upward or downward flight.
e. During a field goal attempt, touch a ball after it has touched the backboard below the ring level and while the ball is on its upward flight.
f. Trap the ball against the face of the backboard. (To be a trapped ball, three elements must exist simultaneously. The hand, the ball and the backboard must all occur at the same time. A batted ball against the backboard is not a trapped ball.)
g. Touch any live ball from within the playing area that is on its downward flight with an opportunity to touch the basket ring. This is considered to be a "field goal attempt" or trying for a goal.
h. Touch the ball at any time with a hand which is through the basket ring.
i. Vibrate the rim or backboard so as to cause the ball to make an unnatural bounce.
PENALTY: If the violation is at the opponent's basket, the offended team is awarded two points, if the attempt is from the two point zone and three points if it is from the three point zone. The crediting of the score and subsequent procedure is the same as if the awarded score has resulted from the ball having gone through the basket, except that the official shall hand the ball to a player of the team entitled to the throw-in. If the violation is at a team's own basket, no points can be scored and the ball is awarded to the offended team at the free throw line extended on either sideline. If there is a violation by both teams, play shall be resumed by a jump ball between any two opponents at the center circle.

 

[patsfan55]

How'd they do in the tourney? :singing:

well were in the second round of the hockey tourney

 

[Johnny Mac]

College is different. You can trap it, and block it off the glass.

But they made the right call. It was going down.

 

[PatsSaintsSox]

hey im a sr at BU

Aight aight, fair enough...

 

[PatsSaintsSox]

Ya it was the right call...

 

[dhamz]

It was the right call.

It really wasn't about the call anyway. You make the kind of mistake BC made on that play you deserve to lose the game. How do 2 guys chase the guy 20 feet from the basket and let someone cut uncontested to the front of the rim. It should never happen.

 

[Terry Glenn is a cowgirl]

It seems alot of contract numbers...are phantom.

They should just say what the contract REALLY is.

 

[IcyPatriot]

Those were the days of Jackie Ferreira in goal,Herb Wakabayashi, Mike Hyndman, Jackie Parker and some great, great BU hockey teams.

Love that Wakabayashi...here's a great paragraph from his profile. The average NHL player is at least 6'1" now and college is just below that.

Playing with his Chatham neighbor, Eddie Wright, the pair became famous for their penalty killing talents. Waky, 5'5" and Eddie, 5'2", could both skate under the crossbar on the cage without bumping their heads, and they killed penalties with such finesse that during one span they did not allow a shot on the Boston University net for 36 consecutive minutes of man-short play. It was as though they had the puck on a string, frustrating every attempt to take it away from them.