Can this improve the game? This collaboration should keep referees well-rested, ultimately improving officiating across all four conferences.
College basketball referees are known to have a heavy workload, and many have taken issue with how that workload induces questionable calls as referees, often attached to leagues, travel far and wide to cover games.
To help answer the issue of workload and to make refereeing a bit more consistent, the Big East, Atlantic Coast Conference, Atlantic-10, and Colonial Athletic Association announced on Tuesday the formation of a men’s basketball officiating alliance.
Big East’s Supervisor of Officials, John Cahill, plus Bryan Kersey, the ACC’s Coordinator of Officiating, have been selected to head this new officiating alliance.