Long pass by Creighton with 1.2 seconds left, ball is touched and hits out of bounds with .2 left. Refs use a stop watch when they determine the clock did not start until some time after the ball was touched, so they use video and a stop watch and find that once they started the watch on the touch, the ball hit out of bounds after the 1.2 was up - game over, San Diego wins. Had the refs in the FL State game last year done that when we got beat on a last second shot they would have easily found (1) clock did not start when the ball was touched by the shooter and (2) the ball was still on/in his hand when the time left had expired and by a lot. My question is why refs never use the stop watch in regular season games to review these last second plays and shots and to look at when the clock actually should have started?
