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Message: [QUOTE="JoePgh, post: 4176929, member: 1131"] There has been a lot of discussion in several threads since the end of the DePaul game about the fact that the referees called an official timeout to check the clock setting after Caroline Ducharme scored the layup near the end of the game. People have generally argued that the refs should have simply let DePaul retrieve the ball and put it in play, rather than give them a free timeout to set up a play for those last few ticks. I think there is one important factor that has not been mentioned in these posts. After Caroline Ducharme's layup was made and the ball fell through the bottom of the net, Dorka grabbed the ball and made a gesture as if she wanted to hand it to someone (the refs? the DePaul inbounder?). That was a definite no-no, and Dorka could have been called for a delay-of-game foul which would have given DePaul two free throws to tie the game. Maybe if she had simply let the ball go and gotten back on defense, the refs would not have whistled a timeout. As it was, Dorka's move probably cost DePaul two or three tenths of a second that they could have used for the inbounds play. The officials may have called the timeout so that they could determine whether time should be put back on the clock to offset the time that Dorka held the ball. I think that is a better thing for the refs to do than calling a technical foul on Dorka. UConn may have gotten off easy on that play. If DePaul had had someone open under the basket at the other end of the court (I have no idea whether they did or not), they could theoretically have grabbed the ball and fired a court-length pass to that person for a layup to tie the game. Dorka holding the ball took that opportunity away (if it ever existed), which is why the rules don't allow you to do what she did. [/QUOTE]

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