College Basketball Has a Problem the N.C.A.A. Tournament Will Expose

Fittingly, the last men’s college basketball we saw before the NCAA Tournament bracket graced the screen Sunday was the end of Michigan’s win over Wisconsin in the Big Ten tournament final — the needless, grinding, painful end.

Out of bounds call, review. Out of bounds call, review. Out of bounds call, review. One of them was such an obvious call that it didn’t need to be reviewed, but that’s what college hoops officials do now, they review everything. By the way, that’s their guidance, not their preference. The result is damage to a product that doesn’t need it. It took 15 minutes for the final 77 seconds of Michigan-Wisconsin to

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