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Found this over at ACCNOW.

Here is the respoonse from John Clougherty, the ACC’s coordinator of basketball officials:

“The league acknowledges that a timing error was made in not starting the game clock at the correct time, when the ball was stolen by Clemson’s Vernon Hamilton off the in-bounded pass from Duke’s Josh McRoberts.

“We came to this conclusion after completing a review of the game film as well as internal conversations with the crew of officials, both head coaches and conference office staff. At this point, as with most league officiating matters, this situation has been handled and resolved internally.”

This is wonderful if handling “internally” means a suspension of officials and scorekeepers involved.  Honestly, they should pick the game back up with 2.4 seconds left and the score tied.  Hey, I remember they did that once in baseball after the George Brett pine-tar incident.

Anyway, this is the way the ACC generally responds to officiating mistakes:  “Yeah, we did it.  Sorry, we’ll take care of it”.  Reaction is not that answer, they need to start being preactive on this.