Most absurd foul ever

[ChE2010]

Kansas State got called for a technical foul prior to their game with Kentucky even started.

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/03/kansas-state-technical-foul-dunk-pregame-ncaa-tournament-kentucky/

 

[jdoggivjc]

Not absurd at all. What is absurd is the K-State player didn't know the rules.

 

[WIBadger]

I think it's a stupid rule and shouldn't be a foul, but I can't blame the refs for calling it.

 

[ISUFan22]

Ha. Purple sucks.

 

[azepp]

Stupid rule and even dumber that if he would have done it 2 seconds earlier it wouldn't have been a technical. Apparently you can't do it within 20 minutes of game time and he did it with 19:58 on the clock.

 

[digZ]

Not absurd at all. What is absurd is the K-State player didn't know the rules.

Lol, so any time a coach leaves the box(20 times per game) they should also call a T. Give a warning like every other case and call it good. Ridiculous that this gets called in a tourney game.

 

[jdoggivjc]

Lol, so any time a coach leaves the box(20 times per game) they should also call a T. Give a warning like every other case and call it good. Ridiculous that this gets called in a tourney game.

Or perhaps the players and coaches should familiarize themselves with the rule book.

Rules may be ridiculous, but they're still rules.

 

[AdamJGray]

I'm sorry but that's awful. Refs sucks.

 

[HFCS]

I'm not sure I'd even want to take those free throws if I were the Kentucky coach. So we've seen Kansas score a field goal during a deadball and we've seen Kentucky score a point before the game.

I'm sure North Carolina Central University will get a break like this sometime, because it's all just random right?

 

[CoKane]

Sounds like they got hosed for the next 40:00 of play too. Let me go find my shocked face fast.

 

[madcityCY]

stupid rule, stupid enforcement. :02 after the rule comes into play? What, was the ref sitting there watching them dunk, waiting for the clock to cross the 20:00 mark? stupid. stupid. stupid. I would feel really bad about myself if I made that call. It cheapens the whole game.

 

[pulse]

I have to say I'm happy with the refs in the tourney. They know and call the rules. Not like conf season.

 

[awd4cy]

Looked like it didn't matter. Not going to beat UK scoring in the 40s.

 

[IowaStateClones]

Kansas state with another foul? Who would have guessed?

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[twocoach]

I think it's a stupid rule and shouldn't be a foul, but I can't blame the refs for calling it.

Since the warm ups at the beginning of the game are at the end of the court where the opponent finishes the game, a player could hang on the rim and bend it out of alignment so that their opponent had a wonky basket to shoot at in the end of the game. I get the rule but I think a warning would have sufficed since it wasn't the whole team out there doing it repeatedly.

 

[cyclonespiker33]

Since the warm ups at the beginning of the game are at the end of the court where the opponent finishes the game, a player could hang on the rim and bend it out of alignment so that their opponent had a wonky basket to shoot at in the end of the game. I get the rule but I think a warning would have sufficed since it wasn't the whole team out there doing it repeatedly.

I think what makes this ridiculous is that you can dunk until 20 minutes before game time and anything after that is a technical. Those two seconds in this case probably didn't make much of a difference, except the refs felt like boning K State before the game even started.

 

[Clonehomer]

Actually, I'd like to nominate the flagrant foul called on OSU's Nash yesterday. That was the most absurd call ever.