Officials

[NavinRJohnson]

Does anyone actually know how the officals are assigned during the tournament? I know they are eveluated, and those that grade out highest advance to the next round. Is this done round to round, or site to site?

For instance...If there are 12 officials assigned to a site for Round 1, do the top 6 from that site work the second round games at that site? This would be my assumption. If so, that is a good news bad new story. The good news is, Reggie Greenwood worked the Memphis game last night, so we wouldn't have to worry bout him. We never win when he works one of our games. The bad news of course is that there was a Higgins siting in Aneheim the other day. Highly unlikely he would work Teaxs A&M's second consecutive game. Gulp!

I just wonder about that though because if I am able to go through that process of elimination that easily, would people with umm....'ties to the gambling community' be able to do the same thing and "target" certain guys?

[NavinRJohnson]

After a bit of research...If Ed Hightower and/or Pat Driscoll are spotted at the Duke/WVU game it may be safe to assume that we will be getting Higginsed tonight.

[cheesey]

Great news

http://blogs.jsonline.com/muhoops/archive/2008/03/22/mu-fans-worry-no-more.aspx

MU fans, worry no more...
By Todd Rosiak
Saturday, Mar 22 2008, 04:50 PM

Anaheim, Calif. -- I was just handed the starting lineups for today's game, and Tim Higgins is not assigned to it.

The officials are Curtis Shaw, David Hall and Patrick Evans.

Just figured you all would want to know that.

Enjoy the game.

[BrewCity83]

AWESOME!!!  Three guys I never heard of!