Sports leagues have instituted replay reviews to help officials make the right decision, but those reviews are usually handled by the referees themselves. In a men’s basketball game between Virginia and Florida in Charlotte on Friday night, though, the officials used a different source to help make the right call.
With under a minute left in the game and the Cavaliers leading by two points, officials had to determine which team touched the ball last in an out-of-bounds play. After initially awarding possession of the ball to Virginia, the refs then used a monitor provided by the ESPN broadcast team to revise that decision.
“We’ve got a much better view on this one,” ESPN analyst Cory Alexander said on the air.
