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Charleston women's team has two wins reversed for using 'improper balls'
College basketball teams have found creative ways to lose games over the years. They’ve even found ways to have wins vacated long after the fact. But this … this is a new one.
The College of Charleston women’s team has had two of its wins overturned into losses after the Colonial Athletic Association found that the Cougars used “improper balls” in home games against William & Mary and UNC-Wilmington.
Those improper balls were apparently men’s basketballs. Women’s college basketball uses a ball that is roughly an inch smaller in circumference and a pound lighter than men’s basketballs. The difference is very noticeable.
UNC-Wilmington, which lost the game in question to Charleston 76-37, noticed something was wrong right away. The Wilmington Star News has more:
The confusion started the previous day, when the Seahawks arrived for their practice at Charleston’s TD Arena.
“Every kid, and even the coaches, said, ‘Those are men’s balls,'” [UNC-Wilmington head coach Adell] Harris said. “We asked their manager, ‘Hey, can you get us the women’s rack.’ They said it was the women’s rack, but that people talk about them all the time feeling like they’re men’s.
“It kept going for about 10 minutes. I finally told them to shut up and stop complaining about it and shoot. I was on the mission of, ‘We can’t control that, let’s not get distracted.'”
The same ball was used the next day in the game.
Turns out the UNC-Wilmington players were right. They had a pretty good excuse for shooting 21 percent from the field, a season low.
The other game in question was won by the Charleston over William & Mary, 70-60.
There’s a quirk with the win/loss reversal, though. From the CAA’s official release:
While the official results, team records and statistics from the games will not change per NCAA policy, William & Mary and UNCW will be awarded a win and College of Charleston will be charged with two losses for purposes of seeding the 2017 CAA Women’s Basketball Championship.
CAA commissioner Joe D’Antonio apparently wanted the games to become forfeits, but the NCAA said the oversized basketballs weren’t cause for a forfeit based on the rulebook. An NCAA spokeswoman said in a statement that the NCAA tournament selection committee would be made aware of the situation, but the wins-turned-losses wouldn’t be reflected in RPI.
Without the win-loss adjustment, Charleston is 3-6 in the CAA this season, so they fall to 1-8 in conference play — kind of. UNC-Wilmington was 3-6 before the change. William & Mary was 3-5, and has the best overall record of the three teams at 13-6.
