Q: Dom, Great job with the blog. I have a question about the end of the Nova game. When the officials went to the monitors to verify how much time was left, they essentially gave Nova, who was out of time-outs, a free time-out, and a chance to set up a play. It seems to me that is a loophole, an opportunity for a team to steal a time-out. I understand checking the clock after buzzer beaters, obviously, but this seemed unnecessary, taking all that time to go from .2 to .6. It wasn’t as if the clock accidentally wasn’t stopped in time. Teams steel free time-outs to an extent 
when a player fouls out, but this seemed much more significant. Is this something any coaches have noticed or talked about? Perhaps they should keep the teams from going to the benches in that situation? Thanks for your time.
Justin
‘Florida
A: It was kind of superfluous, Justin. It’s not like you’re going to get a shot off in 0.6 seconds either. You bring up a good point, and it probably would be fair to require all the players to stay where they are on the court while a play is reviewed. Using replay, even if there is a loophole here or there, remains a good thing, though. Get things right.
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The general rule of thumb in basketball is any time under .3 left would only allow time for a tip in off an in bounds. Anytime time above that it allows for a catch and shoot. Therefore, the review gave Nova the fair chance to make a catch and shoot play rather than a “tip” three point attempt. Granted it is still an extreme longshot for this to happen, but in fairness you need to review the clock to give the inbounding team the most fair attempt. It does allow them to have a “timeout” to assess how they are going to go about it, but it also gives the defending team time to set up defense as well.
I have a question concerning officiating but can’figure out how to start a news mailbag, so I’ll ask it here. I attended the Marquette game and couldn’t help but notice the very animated Marquette coach continually standing on the court sometime by 5 or 6 feet. Perhaps this is seen as a no harm, no foul situation by the officials when the ball is at the other end of the court. On many occasions the coach was well into the court when Uconn had the ball in front of the Marquette bench almost like a 6th defensive player. The fact that the officials did not warn him or slap him with a “T” made no sense to me. What is the rule regarding remaining in the coach’s box?