From Mike DiMauro of Connecticut's The Day:

Connecticut's two primary women's basketball coaches, Geno Auriemma and Mike Thibault, were asked Tuesday whether officials should be made to answer – or at least clarify – controversial calls after games. “I would prefer that,” Thibault said. “One of the reasons is because that in those situations, the coaches and players are trying to explain things, even though we might not have all the facts.”

Auriemma said, “Somebody needs to explain it. It's unfair to the players who played and the coaching staffs and the people who had a rooting interest. To have the game end the way it ended with more questions than answers ... to just leave it hanging like that is unfair, especially to the kids that are playing.”

FWIW - currently, officials are not allowed to comment on the game. There are various, logical reasons for that rule. If there is a decision to change that policy, cool. We can talk about what that might look like.

So, for DiMauro to highlight in his article that "the officials had left the building" smacks of easy sensationalism. They always leave the building.

If coaches have problems with officiating, they call their Coordinator of Officials and/or the send that person game tape. Communication and explanations are done in-house.

That being said, it is clear SOMEthing went wacko at the end of the RU/TN game. It's quite possible that it's not an officiating error.

There was a foul. They blew the whistle. The foul was committed while there was time on the clock.

Should they have known about the mini-Watergate-pause? Not sure.

Was there a pause? Sure looks like it.

Should the SEC, the Big East and anyone else who uses Precision Timing (which was designed specifically to eliminate this kind of drama-trauma) do everything they can to figure out what caused the timing hiccup? No doubt.

Will they? Stay tuned.