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		<title>Fingertips and fractions of a second: Was Sabatino Chen&#8217;s shot good vs. Arizona?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good? Not good? The Arizona-Colorado game touched off a firestorm of tweets, GIFs, video cutups, conspiracy theories … all in search of the elusive truth: Was the banked 3-point shot from Buffs guard Sabatino Chen good at the end of regulation? None of it is particularly conclusive. You can watch until your eyes bleed. Chen [...]]]></description>
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<p>Good? Not good?</p>
<p>The Arizona-Colorado game touched off a firestorm of tweets, GIFs, video cutups, conspiracy theories … all in search of the elusive truth: Was the banked 3-point shot from Buffs guard <strong>Sabatino Chen</strong> good at the end of regulation?</p>
<p>None of it is particularly conclusive. You can watch until your eyes bleed. </p>
<p>Chen had the ball in his hand with 0.1 seconds left in regulation as he took a 3-point shot from just to the left of straightaway. Move the video one frame, and the clock on top of the backboard &#8212; that&#8217;s the official time &#8212; reads 0.0 and the shot appears to be away. <a href="http://www.thebloodyowl.com/2013/01/officials-screw-colorado-by-waiving-off-game-winning-three-pointer/" target="_blank">Check it out here</a>.</p>
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<p><strong>Jeff Borzello</strong> of CBSSports.com tweeted, &#8220;This is the Zapruder film of the 2012-13 college basketball season.&#8221;</p>
<p>What happened in between the frame at 0.1 seconds and the one at 0.0 seconds? Did the ball leave in time? Here is <a href="http://30fps.mocksession.com/2013/01/03/if-you-need-screencap-evidence-fine-ball-is-out-of-his-hands-clock-is-still-at-0-1-the-red-light-is-not-lit/" target="_blank">a screenshot from the ESPNU telecast</a>.</p>
<p>The three-man crew, led by <strong>Verne Harris</strong>, looked at the television monitor for about three minutes before waving off the shot.</p>
<p>&#8220;Are you kidding me?&#8221; said Colorado coach <strong>Tad Boyle</strong>, asked what he thought of the shot being overturned. &#8220;It&#8217;s just disappointing because our team played well enough to win. … But it hurts. It hurts bad. I&#8217;m not going to lie.&#8221;</p>
<p>While the officials were doing the review, Arizona coach <strong>Sean Miller</strong> huddled his team, presumably to discuss strategy for overtime. Well, not exactly.</p>
<div id="attachment_4727" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 310px"><img src="http://tucsoncitizen.com/wildcatreport/files/2013/01/uspw_6903562-300x230.jpg" alt="" title="NCAA Basketball: Colorado at Arizona" width="300" height="230" class="size-medium wp-image-4727" /><p class="wp-caption-text"><strong>Colorado celebrates what it thinks was the game-winning 3-pointer at the end of regulation.</strong> Photo by Casey Sapio-USA TODAY Sports</p></div>
<p>&#8220;I was sending the officials a subliminal message that I knew the shot was no good,&#8221; Miller said, smiling. &#8220;It was all an act. I had nothing to say.&#8221;</p>
<p>Of the officials, he added, &#8220;They said it could have gone either way.&#8221;</p>
<p>It went the Wildcats&#8217; way, and then, after fighting back from a 16-point second-half deficit, having survived an eight-point hole with 1:44 to go … Arizona ran away from the 80-80 tie to win 92-83 in overtime.</p>
<p>Official <strong>James Breeding</strong> told TV announcers courtside that the ball was still in Chen&#8217;s fingertips. That&#8217;s what it came down to: Fingertips and less than a 10th of a second.</p>
<p><strong>John Adams</strong>, the NCAA coordinator of officials, texted to the Sporting News that the referees made the right call.</p>
<p>&#8220;On my home TV and watching replay, I couldn’t see the ball off fingers until 00 on clock,&#8221; Adams wrote to the Sporting News. (<strong>Mike DeCourcy</strong> has more about <a href="http://aol.sportingnews.com/ncaa-basketball/story/2013-01-03/controversial-3-pointer-in-arizona-colorado-game-just-one-of-many-questionable-c" target="_blank">several questionable calls in the game.</a>)</p>
<p>The Cats had all the momentum in overtime. Colorado, which hit 10 of 15 3-pointers in regulation, missed all six of their shots from behind the arc in overtime. The Buffs made only 4 of 12 free throws in the final two minutes of the regulation and overtime.</p>
<p>&#8220;Once we got it to overtime, I knew we were going to win the game,&#8221; said Arizona senior guard <strong>Kevin Parrom</strong>. &#8220;Simple as that. The game was over.&#8221;</p>
<p>There were dozens and dozens of things late in the game that could have changed the outcome, but only that banked 3-pointer &#8212; good, no good? &#8212; will be long remembered. It was almost the greatest night of Chen&#8217;s career, by miles.</p>
<p>The senior guard scored a career-high 15 points and matched his <em>career</em> total by making two 3-pointers. He entered the game 2 of 23 for his career … and then went 2 of 4 from behind the arc vs. Arizona.</p>
<p>Or was it 3 of 5?</p>
<p>&#8220;I was guarding my man and I had just seen the ball go in, and I just got a little upset,&#8221; said guard <strong>Mark Lyons</strong>. &#8220;I was like, &#8216;We worked this hard for him to bank in the shot?&#8217;&#8221;</p>
<p>Teammate <strong>Nick Johnson</strong> said he had the right call all the way.</p>
<p>&#8220;I knew it wasn&#8217;t good,&#8221; said Johnson, who immediately gestured with his hands to implore the refs to wave off the shot as Colorado celebrated. &#8220;I was just holding to my gut feeling … and that&#8217;s what they said.&#8221;</p>
<p>Yep. That&#8217;s what they said. But the debate will continue.</p>
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