The NCAA said Monday that it corrected the issue ahead of the Elite Eight game between No. 1 USC and No. 3 Connecticut.
women’s basketball coach Tara VanDerveer called a that led to the top of the 3-point line being marked 9 inches shorter at one end of the court for the first five games of the women’s NCAA Tournament’s Portland regional “inexcusable and unfair to every team that played on it.” Advertisement “When you arrive at a gym, especially in the NCAA Tournament, at the very least you expect the baskets to be 10 feet and the floor markings to be correct,” VanDerveer said in a statement Monday.
” The correct 3-point line — 22 feet, 1 3/4 inches from the basket — is marked in black. The NCAA said that a corrected 3-point line was marked in black on the court at Moda Center in Portland, Ore. According to the NCAA, the error only affected the 3-point line’s apex. Coaches from NC State and said the error did not affect their teams’ performances.
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