The Women's Basketball Officiating Consortium ruled Wednesday that the game officials made a series of mistakes that led to them to count the game-winning basket in South Dakota State's victory over Minnesota on Sunday.
The consortium acknowledged that the officiating crew misapplied the ruling concerning when a game has ended and also mishandled the video replay.
Maria Boever made a layup with no time on the clock that gave South Dakota State a 59-58 win. After watching a video replay for a few minutes the officials changed their ruling to say the shot didn't count. South Dakota State coach Aaron Johnston protested and the officials watched the tape one more time and finally decided to count the basket.
''They didn't procedurely handle the review of the video properly,'' said Patty Broderick, the coordinator of officials for the WBOC. ''Obviously coaches aren't supposed to be around. It was one mistake after another. They got caught up in the emotion of it.''
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