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A controversial call in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament game between Kansas and Samford on Thursday night has fans calling it a “robbery”
Up 90-89 with under 20 seconds left in the second half, Jayhawks guard Nicolas Timberlake tried to dunk the ball on a transition opportunity to go up by three points. Trailing closely behind Timberlake, however, was Samford guard A.J. Staton-McCray who managed to block the shot. Unfortunately for Staton-McCray, he was called for a foul.
Various angles of the play showed that it was a clean block. Timberlake fell to the ground during the ball, meaning Samford likely would have had a numbers advantage in the event of Staton-McCray getting the rebound and taking it to the other side of the floor.
Thirteenth-seeded Samford lost to the fourth-seeded Jayhawks 93-89.
Viewers were furious.
Samford coach Bucky McMillan echoed the point about the numbers advantage, but he made it clear that wasn’t faulting the referees for his team’s loss.
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