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SEC football to use instant replay next season
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BIRMINGHAM The Southeastern
Conference will use instant replay on an experimental basis during league
games for the 2005 season.
University presidents and
chancellors approved the change last week, rubber-stamping a prior vote by
the league's athletic directors.
``Through every meeting and
discussion with our coaches, athletic directors and presidents and
chancellors, the use of instant replay received overwhelming support,'' SEC
commissioner Mike Slive said. ``Our officials make every effort to get each
call right. Instant replay will go a long way in helping them accomplish
their goal.''
Details of the league's
instant replay plan will be decided at the SEC spring meetings, held May
31-June 3 in Destin, Fla.
The NCAA Football Rules
Committee recommended in February that member conferences and schools be
allowed to experiment with instant replay for the 2005 season,
as the Big Ten did last year.
Slive indicated earlier that
he expected the SEC to use a system similar to the Big Ten, with officials
in a booth determining which plays to review, not officials or coaches on
the field.
The Big Ten said replay was
used in 28 of the 57 games last season. Of the 43 calls questioned, 21 were
overturned.
However, the system would not
necessarily have altered the SEC's most publicized officiating mistakes last
season a clock-management gaffe in the Florida-Tennessee game and an
apparent pass interference that wasn't called in the end zone during the
Alabama-LSU game.
The Mountain West Conference has also
announced
its intention to use instant replay
in 2005, joining the
Atlantic Coast Conference in implementing
a system based on the one the Big Ten employed last year.
Last chance for Cards to earn an outright title
Louisville can be forgiven if its
celebration for clinching a share of the Conference USA regular season title
was a bit muted.
The ninth-ranked Cardinals face a
difficult turnaround to try to earn the outright title when they face DePaul
on Saturday in the final C-USA game for both teams.
Louisville (25-4, 13-2 C-USA) earned a
share of the title with a 94-82 win over No. 18 Charlotte late Thursday
night. The Cardinals also wrapped up the top seed for the conference
tournament.
They would like to earn the first and
only outright C-USA title in school history. It would be the last because
Louisville and DePaul (18-8, 10-5) are among five teams leaving the
conference to join the Big East.
After playing at home late Thursday,
the Cardinals winners of 14 of their last 15 games traveled to Chicago
on Friday for the next day's 11 a.m. Central (noon ET) start.
``It's great to win a championship, but
we can't fall into a trap right now,'' Louisville coach Rick Pitino said.
``The trap is that we're coming off a very emotional Senior Night and now we
play against a team on the senior brunch, with the game set for 11 a.m.
Central on Saturday, we don't have any time to prepare and DePaul is a
terrific basketball team.
``We've got one game left and we want
to keep on winning. We're going to have a hell of a fight in Chicago because
they're an excellent ball club.''
Larry O'Bannon scored a career-high 33
points to help Louisville to its fifth straight win. O'Bannon bounced back
from a two-point outing last Saturday at Memphis.
``Your hometown fans are going to
remember you in your last game,'' O'Bannon said. ``I didn't know it was
going to be like that.''
Cardinals forward Ellis Myles just
missed a triple-double against Charlotte with 10 points, 10 assists and
eight rebounds. Myles has provided a boost by averaging 10.8 points and 10.8
rebounds over his previous five outings.
``He's playing great basketball right
now,'' Pitino said. ``He's handling, he's passing it and he's a big reason
why we're winning right now. I think Francisco (Garcia), Larry and Taquan
(Dean) get a lot of credit, but if you take Ellis out of this lineup, you
have last year's team and last year's team had no low-post presence.''
DePaul has not played since an 81-80
overtime loss at UAB on Wednesday that prevented the Blue Demons from
earning a first-round bye in the conference tournament. A win over
Louisville would clinch at least fourth place and boost DePaul's chances at
a second straight NCAA tournament berth.
The Blue Demons are 14-1 at home, where
they have won 12 straight. They are 7-0 at the Allstate Arena in conference
play and have never been unbeaten at home for an entire conference season.
Drake Diener drained six 3-pointers,
but missed a potential go-ahead shot in the final 12 seconds of Wednesday's
loss. Diener, who is one of four seniors playing his final home game, has
led the Blue Demons in scoring in each of the last five games, averaging
19.8 points in that stretch.
Diener, who is shooting over 46 percent
from the arc, has made at least six 3-pointers in three of his last six
games.
DePaul has won the last two meetings
with Louisville and both have gone overtime. Quemont Greer scored 19 points
for the Blue Demons in a 60-58 win at Freedom Hall on Feb. 25, 2004 in the
last meeting.
C-USA standings, scores, schedule & TV
STANDINGS (through
Friday):
TEAM CONF
ALL Louisville# 13 2 25 4
Charlotte 12 3 21
5
Cincinnati 11 4 23 6
DePaul
10 5 18 8
UAB
9 6 19 9
Houston
9 6 18 11
Memphis
9 6 16 13
Texas Christian 8 7
18 11
Marquette
7 8 19 9
Saint Louis 5 10
8 20
South Florida 4 11
11 15
East Carolina 4 11
9 18
Tulane
3 12 9 17
Southern Miss 1 14
10 17
Note #: Clinched top seed
in the
Mar. 9-12 Conference USA
Tournament in Memphis and
at least a share of
regular season title.
WEDNESDAY'S GAMES:
Cincinnati 77, Tulane 56
Marquette 76, Houston 55
Texas Christian 70, South Florida 53
Saint Louis 70, Memphis 61
UAB 81, DePaul 80
THURSDAY'S GAMES:
Louisville 94, Charlotte 82 (ESPN2)
FRIDAY'S GAMES:
No games scheduled.
SATURDAY'S GAMES:
Louisville at DePaul 12 PM
(ESPN)
Saint Louis at Marquette 1 PM (ESPN+)
Cincinnati at Memphis 4 PM (ESPN)
Texas Christian at Southern Miss 5 PM
Charlotte at South Florida 7 PM
UAB at Houston 8 PM
East Carolina at Tulane 8 PM
END OF REGULAR SEASON.
C-USA TOURNAMENT, Mar.
9-12, Memphis, TN
Compiled from
Conference USA and wire reports.
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