As a referee, I was very amused at the reaction to Brown's over and back violation late. You could see Boals yelling "THAT'S BULL!", but it was correctly called. That's the kind of reaction where I'm saying in my head "It's the right call - read the damn rule book."

Man why do you hate Belmont so much?

On a related note, many kudos to Belmont for being willing to come to Athens. Was a great matchup.

Boals has confirmed it is a home and home deal.

+1. Dagger.

An over and back violation occurs when there is 1) team control in the front court 2) the ball goes into the back court after it was last touched by the offensive team in its front court and 3) that same team is the first to touch the ball in the back court.

There's a saying in some basketball situations that "you are where you came from". Mark passes the ball from the back court to Miles who, while the ball is airborne, has two feet in the front court. Miles jumps to catch the pass. When he catches it, the ball has front court status because Miles came from the front court. When he lands, the ball has back court status because Miles is in contact with the ball while in the back court. Violation. If Miles had just one foot in contact with the division line when he jumped, it would not have been a violation because Miles would have had back court status when he contacted the ball. The division line is considered part of the back court just like the sideline or endline is considered out of bounds.

I was thinking something similar while watching last night's game as Jason continued shooting behind the arc despite missing his first few attempts. I was thinking that he must have the green light regardless of previous misses.

Other than having gotten free studio time there in the 1980's (which I was thankful for), I have no reason to pull for Belmont.

I'm not an alum, I don't know any Belmont alums anymore, I have no reason to pull for them. And their little spoiled preppy students certainly were annoying at the Bracket Buster game that time.

Did you know their admission rate is 84% - for a private school?? Do you know will happen if a top professor of the Jewish faith applies to teach at their new law school? I could keep going, but the list of reasons to not pull for Belmont is plenty long.

One of a hundred links I could post....
https://247sports.com/college/north-carolina/Board/106149... /

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Prediction: if the game was close and that over-&-back call had cost us the game, there wouldn't be so much kissy-face & huggy-bear Belmont love on here today. Their popularity would be on par with Fiami and tOSU.