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Video shows Boise State basket beat buzzer against Colorado State

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(Brian Smith / The Coloradoan via Associated Press

Boise State forward Anthony Drmic reacts after his team blows an opportunity to tie the game during Colorado State’s 97-93 double overtime win over the Boise State Broncos on Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2016, at Moby Arena in Fort Collins, Colo.

The Boise State basketball team thought it had won the game.

Forward James Webb III hit what appeared to be game-winning shot at the buzzer in overtime Wednesday night against Colorado State — or so he thought.

After officials reviewed the play the shot was overturned, and the game was sent into a second overtime where Colorado State pulled out a 97-93 victory.

The call was overturned despite instant replay showing that the ball was out of Webb’s hands with 0.4 seconds remaining.

“I’ve never seen anything like it, I don’t think we can just make up timing rules,” Boise State coach Leon Rice told the Idaho Statesman after the game. “Hopefully the (Mountain West) conference can explain it to me, because I guess I’m ignorant to what you can do and what you can’t do. They don’t hand time things in the Olympics anymore.”

Dave Hall, who officiated the game, explained his ruling in a statement.

“The protocol on any last-second shot, after the shot is made, you go to the monitor to review whether the shot was taken in time or not. We followed the protocol, we went to the monitor and we reviewed whether the shot was taken in the 0.8 seconds that was on the game clock when the ball was inbounded. We did that and we noticed that the game clock was not started upon touch. We then used a stopwatch overlay from the monitor review system to determine when he touched it and then figure out how many tenths of a second it took from the time he touched the ball until the time he released the ball and whether he was able to get that shot off in that 0.8 seconds. After reviewing that several times we determined that the shot was late. It was not taken in that 0.8-second time frame, but actually closer to 1.2 or 1.3 time frame. As a result, the basket does not count.”

One could say Boise State had this coming, after UNLV’s game-winning buzzer beater by Deville Smith on Feb. 22, 2014, was wiped off the board to give the Broncos a 91-90 overtime win.

That call was controversial as well due to the red light around the backboard not lighting up when time expired.

Jesse Granger can be reached at 702-259-8814 or [email protected]. Follow Jesse on Twitter at twitter.com/JesseGranger_.

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