Xavier Robbed

By Travis Williams
I completely understand that if you subtract 1.4 seconds from 1.2 seconds, your left with less than zero seconds.  I completely get that. 
So that portion of the referee's explaination as to why they ended the Butler/Xavier game following Gordon Hayward's bucket with 1.2 seconds remaining was clear. 

But how did it even get to that point.  For those that missed it let me recap. Butler trailing by one point with the ball and under twenty seconds remaining in the game, loses the ball.  As the clock ticks away, it "eroneously" pauses at 14.7 seconds and restarts about a second later.  Clearly giving the home team Butler additional time for a quality shot. 

After that quality shot was made, with 1.2. seconds remaining, and a timeout called the officials met for nearly five minutes and decided the game was over.

Xavier players were understandably upset.

What would have happened if Haywad were fould with 1.2 seconds left? Do you think the refs would have adjusted the clock then? 

Who knows. 

All we do know is that Tim Donaghy was not  officiating the game. 

Knight vs Calipari

Former University of Indiana coach Bobby Knight struck a chord with Wildcat fans this week by questioning UK's "integrity" with its hire of John Calipari. Scratch that. 

Let's take the politically correct newspaper jargon out and say what really happened.  Bob Knight, like he's been known for doing, simply spoke the truth and some feathers got ruffled.  That's right. 

The TRUTH.

The General simply stated:

"You see we've got a coach at Kentucky who put two schools on probation and he's still coaching. I really don't understand that."

I'm not going as far as to say the man should never coach again. Just not at Kentucky. At least not this soon.  Didn't UK athletic director Mitch Barnhart learn anything from the Indiana/Kelvin Sampson drama just up the road?

Although our own Mr. Marvelous will point out that Calipari himself has never been found guilty of any wrongdoing, he's still been smack dab in the middle of two major infractions. 

And as Knight said, I just don't understand that.

Sure Kentucky's 11-0 start seems pretty

impressive now.  But the real question is how long will this season's ineligible player in superstar Derrick Rose.  Will John Wall's team suffer the same fate?
Only time will tell.  But why even take that chance? Especially at a University that's had its share of run ins already with NCAA. It was the perfect opportunity for UK to show they can run a classy program that stands for more than just wins and losses. Instead Big Blue Nation went for something "shiny." They chose to go the easy route and hire the guy who could get the program back in the national spotlight immediately. But if the Calipari era ends untarnished, we might be looking at a dynasty in the making.  However until then, the rest of the sports world has the right to wonder aloud if the Calipari hire was a good one. 

Cat fans get used to it.