TCU stuns G’town as officials can’t overturn shot

Emanuel Miller scored 29 points and his desperation 3-point, running bank shot at the buzzer carried TCU past Georgetown 84-83 in a thriller Saturday in a Huge East/Big 12 Fight contest in Washington.But not without some controversy.Replay showed Miller stepped on the best sideline with his left foot right before releasing the ball. Though officials reviewed the play, because they missed Miller stepping out-of-bounds in genuine time, by rule they couldn’t overturn the shot.Editor’s Picks 1 Related Jayden Epps sank a pair of foul shots with 2.7 seconds left to offer Georgetown an 83-81 lead. On the inbounds, TCU

‘s Micah Peavy ran the baseline, and like a quarterback rolling to the right to avert pressure, tossed the ball on a near-straight line to Miller who caught it, turned, took a dribble and launched it before falling to the floor.Despite the controversial ending, first-year Hoyas coach Ed Cooley stated the one play wasn’t the sole factor his group lost. “We had three of the best authorities in America on our game today, “he told reporters.”Top-level officials. Final 4 authorities. Regional last authorities.

The game is not defined by one play, all right, and that’s what everybody is going to discuss. “We had opportunities throughout the game. We missed out on a great deal of totally free throws, missed a couple of blockouts. Everybody’s always going to think about the last play,’What might’ve, should’ve.’Provide credit. They needed to toss the pass, the kid captured it and made the shot.”Cooley did say he believes the rule in basic needs to be evaluated. “If they can review it to see if he was out-of-bounds and it might be reversed, then I believe we do have to take a look at that,” he said. “Not since we’re on the other side, what remains in the very best interest of the game. Not so much what remains in the very best interest of Georgetown at this moment. What’s in the best interest of the game to keep the game reasonable, fair and even throughout the board.”If he would have called him out-of-bounds and the ball entered, you can have a look at it and say, ‘Well, no basket.’You take a look at it the other

way, you can’t make the call due to the fact that there was no call on the floor. Possibly it’s a chance for us to open that and take a difficult look at it to see if we can do that.”Miller ended up 12-for-18 shooting, JaKobe Coles scored 17 points and reserve Avery Anderson III had 11 for the undefeated Horned Frogs (7-0 ). Epps scored 24 points, Dontrez Styles scored 18, reserve Ismael Massoud scored 16 points and Jay Heath scored 10 points for the Hoyas.The Horned Frogs led 44-36 at

halftime and extended the result in 51-36 two minutes into the 2nd half before Georgetown began its rally. Massoud and Heath made 3s and Epps made a layup to lower the deficit to 57-54. Georgetown went ahead and led 81-75 before Jameer Nelson Jr. and Coles made successive 3s in a 10-second period to level ball game with 1:29 left.TCU hosts Clemson next Saturday while Georgetown will host Syracuse.Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.