Did you not watch the broadcast? Manzer described why pretty well. Also they were able to reverse the call using replay because it was a flagrant foul not a common foul. They changed that rule last year or the year before.
So, I have no skin in this game and they beat us because they are better coached and better in general. But, you can overturn a flagrant but not a regular foul? Well, it looked like a flagrant, but, crap, it was nothing. WV ball. As opposed to we mumped up a slapping foul on the permitter, but there ain't crap we can do about it? Bball refereeing is weird..
Yep. Can only review a flagrant. Can't find a common.
However the jump ball play being discussed could have been turned into a flagrant had they chosen to review after seeing the blood. That's if the contact had been considered flagrant after review. They couldn't issue a regular foul.
You are correct, a common foul cannot be reviewed. On that jump ball I don't think the officials would have called a flagrant if they reviewed it. Remember almost a decade ago when the rule change was all blows above the shoulder was an automatic flagrant? They changed that rule after a couple of years to add something to the effect of "forceable contact" to the rule. They would have almost certainly ruled that inadvertent.
As far as the cylinder rule goes, I was positive the WVU player was outside of his cylinder, but Manzer was so quick to cite the rule and say that X impeded on the cylinder that I just figured that I was watching with bias.
