Or maybe too ready. I have been trying to not blog too much about the games while they are playing since the first day I mentioned multiple teams possibly pulling upsets based on the early scores of the games and then the favorite came back to win. But I feel like I can say this without impacting anything since it is just a close game.

At the 8 minute TV timeout with Iowa up 22-20, something happened that I don’t remember seeing in a tournament game (or any game for that matter). The horn went off, and then wouldn’t go off. About 5-6 minutes in, the announcer mentioned that they had unplugged the horn and shot clock, and yet, the horn was still going off so at that point, no one knew what was happening.

The delay was so long that they started allowing the teams to start warming up again – they brought balls out so players could take some shots, while others were jogging back and forth between the out-of-bounds line just trying to stay ready to play.

After about 11 minutes according to the announcers, they finally were able to get the old horn to turn off, get a manual horn that they could use for stopping play. And to thunderous applause, the game started back up.

Anything can happen in March – even a horn going off for 10 minutes.