When the boos came cascading down on referee Curtis Shaw after he called the foul that put Marshall Brown on the line to hit the deciding free throws with 1.8 seconds, it didn’t surprise former referee Charles Greene.

He’s seen it many times in his 35 years of officiating, 19 of which were spent refereeing Division I basketball.

Although he’s retired from refereeing,Sunderland shirt, he’s currently an observer for the Big 12 conference, monitoring the referees at every Oklahoma men’s basketball game.

“Basically an observer is a critiquer,” Greene said. “We don’t give any opinions,Paris Saint Germain shirt, we just report as to what we have seen at the ball games. I look at the whole ball game, nothing in particular. How it’s administrated, whether officials were in position and all of those sorts of things.”

After the fans booed Shaw on calling a foul in the corner on a chaotic play where Gray bumped into Brown as he was shooting, Greene offered his take after the game.

“You have to have guts if you are going to officiate,” Greene said. “If whatever is there is there and you make the call and you’re not guessing and you’re in position then that’s just part of the job.”

Since Greene was at the opposite end of the court on the same side as the play, he didn’t have a clear view

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of the play but he offered his take on the situation.

“I didn’t see that play real good so I really don’t have an opinion. Let’s say for arguments’ sake that the person (Gray) did foul, now would it have been fair for Missouri if the foul hadn’t been called? There are two sides to every story.”

Like most college referees, officiating was a side job to Greene who worked in many levels of education from a classroom teacher to an administrator.

His experience in tense situations officiating offered him good experience for his jobs in education.

“It teaches you how to communicate with people and how to be patient,” Greene said. “You know it helped me in my profession when I was working because I was always dealing with people who were upset and emotional.”

SNEAKEY SOUTHPAWS:It’s only natural to become accustomed to guarding players a certain way, which usually means shading a player to his the left-hand.

The match-up against the Sooners offered a somewhat unique challenge for the Tigers guards, as Oklahoma starting guards Nate Carter and Terrell Everett are left-handed.

Tigers guard Jimmy McKinney acknowledged the challenge the match-up presented the pair of southpaws presented.

“It’s always hard to guard left-handed ball players because it’s awkward,” McKinney said. “There are things that they do that you haven’t seen before.”

Thomas Gardner said playing against a backcourt with two left-handers is very rare and that he had to make adjustments as they game went on as far as shading Oklahoma’s guards to their right-hand.

McKinney said a match-up earlier in the year with UMKC’s Quinton Day, a left-handed point guard, helped the Tigers corral Everett,Villareal shirt, who was averaging 10 points and 6.5 assists.

“I think it helped because how quick Quinton Day was, what type of shots Quinton Day was shooting, I think it really helped us guard Everett,” McKinney said.

Everett finished with 11 points and seven assists on 4-of-11 shooting, and Carter finished with nine points and three assists on 3-of-7 shooting.