Late in the North Carolina-Virginia game, it appeared that UNC’s Coby White had gotten off a wild three at the end of a shot clock but officials, after looking at a monitor, ruled that the ball wasn’t out of his hands when the clock expired, negating a key basket.

No one seemed to argue the call and TV announcers agreed that the clock had gone to zero before it was off White’s fingertips. But perhaps the basket should have counted. The clock not only has to go to zero but the horn has to sound.

In other words, there could have been 0.9 seconds, 0.8 seconds, 0.7 seconds, 0.6 seconds, 0.5 seconds, 0.4 seconds, 0.3 seconds, 0.2 seconds or 0.1 seconds left on the clock.

Everyone seemed to be going by a single digit zero on the clock, rather than listening for the horn. If they aren’t going to listen for the horn, the shot clocks really should have four digits – or at least three – on them rather than just two.

On the play, White, not realizing the shot clock was running down and upon the urging of UNC coach Roy Williams, fired up an off-balanced three from Walter Davis land and it went in to apparently give the Heels a 62-59 lead.

From that point on, Virginia went on a 10-2 run to win 69-61.