Looked up specifics of rules. It all hinges on control. Player control is while player is holding or dribbling the ball. There is team control while in player control; passing between offensive players or ball is at disposal of thrower in. Team control ends when the ball leaves shooter’s hand on try for goal and is not re-established until player control is established. My understanding is that there are three scenarios for Saturday's situation.
1. What should have happened. Grill shoots and misses. There is no player or team control while the ball bounces towards sideline, KSU player grabs it establishing player control, but not until airborne and heading out of bounds. KSU player yelling timeout prior to securing possession is ignored as no team control. KSU player calling timeout while airborne is ignored as not allowed by NCAA rules. KSU player lands out of bounds and ISU awarded the ball for inbound.
2. What should have been ruled with an inadvertent whistle. Same as above but official inadvertently blows whistle before KSU player secures control of the ball. Ball immediately becomes dead, thus allowing KSU to call timeout. Still don’t have team control so we have an alternating possession jump ball situation. KSU is granted and charged the timeout, and KSU ball out of bounds on alternating possession. KSU is out of timeouts now and arrow changes to ISU on inbounds.
3. What appears to have happened. Same as 2 except instead of dead ball alternating possession, official rules KSU had team control and doesn’t dock timeout or switch arrow (I can't figure that one out).
An inadvertent whistle is to resume play from point of whistle. At the time of the inadvertent whistle the ball was loose with neither team in control, thus the jump ball situation that should have been called. How the official determined that KSU had possession at the time of the inadvertent whistle, but THEN doesn't charge them with a timeout or rule them out of bounds if one ignores the not allowed timeout request . . . SMH.