Short summary:
Robert Morris has the ball and coach directs his player to get close to the baseline to call a time out. Announcers rail on coach questioning why would he want to inbounds there, claiming it to be the worst place to be. Coach draws up a perfect inbounds play and draws a foul. Free throws win game. Instead of praising coach for excellent play. SEC biased announcer basically says coach still should not have done that, but it was the UK players error that saved him.
Calipari in the post game presser says he gave in to his team many times during the year. Basically letting the inmates run the asylum.
The coach ran a great play, that is what coaching is all about. Van Dyke showed how the Kentucky player guarding the out of bounds play was not guarding the baseline, so the
Robert Morris player easily got the ball in for a lay-up try, got fouled. An experienced player, not a freshman, would probably have figured out what they had to do to get the ball in.
Obviously, the great John Cal did not figure it out either as there was a time-out. College coaching is about recruiting the best players, once Noels went down, Kentucky was over.
Cal recruits no bench, can not wait to see how many of those so-called 5 star recruits go pro as 5 or 6 more are coming in this year. Glad to see what happened to Kentucky, I am
sure they will never play at Robert Morris again.
After the game all the Kentucky freshman that were playing in the game said there coming back. Noel wasn't mentioned. Unfortunately with there recruiting class and if those players indeed do come back, they could make another strong run in ncaa tournament next year.
I thought the announcers had it right. The UK player guarding the ball SHOULD have cut off the inbound near the basket, and simply didn't. Now maybe RMU's coaching staff knew something about UK's tendencies or simply gambled and hit.
I watched the last couple minutes on replay. Most entertaining NIT game I've ever seen.