Duke head coach Jon Scheyer gracefully handled his team’s 69-62 overtime loss to Virginia on Saturday after the officials called — then reviewed and waved off — a foul that would have sent leading scorer Kyle Filipowski to the line in regulation with a chance to win the game. In his first public comments since the dust settled over the weekend, however, Scheyer was more forceful in his response to the sequence, insisting the bungled handling by the officiating crew was not acceptable.
“I’m angry still,” Scheyer said Monday on the ACC’s weekly conference call. “I’d be I’d be lying to you if I said I wasn’t. Saturday was a disappointing outcome. All of us saw the ACC release. I respect them for pointing it out. I respect them for acknowledging it. Obviously doesn’t change the outcome that our guys didn’t get the opportunity to earn a win.”
The ACC admitted last Saturday night that its officiating crew made a mistake by waving off the foul following a review at the end of regulation. In a press release, the league office said the sequence was incorrectly adjudicated and that Filipowski should have been awarded two free throws with the game tied at 58.
“The Atlantic Coast Conference, upon review of the final play of regulation during the Duke at Virginia men’s basketball game, has announced an incorrect adjudication of the playing rules,” the ACC’s statement said. “A foul was called on Virginia’s Ryan Dunn during a shot attempt by Duke’s Kyle Filipowski as time expired. Upon the officials’ review of the play, it was determined that the foul committed occurred after the clock reached 0.0. However, the play should have resulted in two free throws for Duke.”
Scheyer after the game was more confused than upset over what happened on the final play in regulation that seemingly set Duke up to win with free throws before the call was reversed and the game was sent to overtime. The officiating crew…
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