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Thursday, February 28, 2008

Did Ohio State lose, in Monday night's upset, not to Indiana, but to a scorekeeper's error?

According to ESPN, yes and no: unlike, say, the game clock mess involving Tennessee, this was a situation in which the Buckeye coaches could have pointed out, and hence fixed, the mistake-- had they only seen it in time.

Wait a second: the Buckeyes say they did. "One of my assistants asked why they added a point," says coach Foster, "and we were told it was taken care of."

The Women's Basketball Officiating Consortium, which handles such issues within the Big Ten, officially blames everybody nobody, and says, understandably, that nothing can be fixed now.