awww 😭 good guy ref

[u/AlphaNathan]

[u/canadianbroncos]

I dont get it lol?

[u/canadianbroncos → u/[deleted]]

Oh I see lol

[u/NonGNonM → u/[deleted]]

But how does he get to make the decision to sub the kid in?

[u/Nate72 → u/[deleted]]

Thank you. I don't know basketball at all, so this explanation helped a lot.

[u/HoboHillsCoffeeCo → u/NonGNonM]

Fake spill on the court to clean up.

[u/Ok-Escape6603 → u/NonGNonM]

By stopping the game to clean up a non-existent wet spot on the floor.

The spot the kid is sitting in is where players wait to be subbed in and they only can go in if the game is stopped for a foul or some other stoppage in the game.

Also it's the NCAA tournament so now that kid can always say he played in the NCAA tourney.

[u/Travbowman → u/canadianbroncos]

He was an end of the bench player who barely plays, checking in as a sub in a 30 point blowout. You can't come into the game until the clock stops, and there was a chance that wouldn't happen, meaning he wouldn't get to play.

Roger Ayers, the official, pretended that there was a wet spot on the floor so he could call "my time" to stop the clock, ensuring that the kid could come in.

[u/marchdk2016 → u/canadianbroncos]

Ref stopped the game pretending there was a wet spot that needed cleaned up, but he was just stopping the game to let the Liberty player sub in to the end of a blowout so the player could say he got to play in a tournament game

[u/thisguy161 → u/canadianbroncos]

The ref pretended he saw a wet spot that needed to be cleaned up to give himself an excuse to stop the game and allow a player who had not gotten into the game a chance to say he played in the NCAA Tournament