Mountain West: Wrong call on Boise St.'s buzzer-beater vs. Colo. State

— -- Boise State should have beaten Colorado State with a last-second James Webb III banked 3-pointer at the end of the first overtime, but the wrong ruling can't be overturned under NCAA rules, the Mountain West Conference said in a statement Friday after reviewing the video for a second day in a row.

Colorado State beat Boise State 97-93 in the second overtime Wednesday night in Fort Collins, Colo., after Webb's shot was waved off. The shot was initially called good by the officials, but after huddling up at midcourt and watching a video replay they overturned the call. The league then issued another statement Thursday and released the video they used to prove their point.

Initially, officials said the elapsed time of the shot was actually more 1.2 or 1.3 seconds instead of getting it under the 8-tenths that were remaining. But further analysis was called for, prompting the reversal Friday.

The conference said there was a discrepancy between the "rate at which the embedded digital stopwatch advanced and the rate at which the game clock regressed during the instant replay review.'' The statement went on to say the officials made the correct decision with the evidence they had at the time. But the conference office said they didn't see a video at full speed from the production truck.

Ultimately, the conference said the one replay angle from the opposite baseline camera the officials were using wasn't at full speed when it was seen on television and as a result the embedded stopwatch outpaced the video giving the officials a false reading.

The conference concluded saying after measuring the timing of the shot again that Webb's shot should have counted and did get off within the 0.8 seconds remaining.

But under NCAA men's basketball playing rules 5, section 5, a result of a game cannot be overturned.

Boise State (16-9) fell into fourth-place tie at 7-5 in the Mountain West with the loss to the Rams - a game behind second-place teams Fresno State and New Mexico in the loss column and four games behind first place San Diego State.