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Refs never saw angle viewers did on controversial possession call

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Jason Chan

It might make you feel a little better about last night, or it might make the loss in the National Championship game even worse.

Either way, earlier Tuesday, NCAA head of officials John Adams went on Sirius XM College Sports Nation and felt obligated to bring up the call on this controversial play late in the second half.

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The rest of the angles of the play were pretty inconclusive, but this slow-mo, up-close view of the ball tipping off Justise Winslow’s outstretched finger was the one that could have overturned the official’s initial decision. Except, they never saw it.

“We have been told time and time again, ‘Nobody at home will see anything you didn’t see,’ and I will tell you that is not what happened last night,” Adams said in the interview with Tim Brando.

The worst part about it is that Adams saw the angle after the referees had made their decision, but didn’t know if it was in his prerogative to stop the game to have the officials look at this other angle.

He knew it was a big call, had the intuition that it could affect the game, but did nothing. Oops.

I guess we’ll never know if it would’ve affected the outcome.

Here’s the audio from the interview.

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