A bizarre scene took place in Portland ahead of Sunday's NCAA women's tournament game between NC State and Texas as officials took out measuring tapes to measure the distance of the 3-point lines.
It turns out that one of them was short. The NCAA announced in a statement on Monday that the 3-point line on one side of the court was nine inches shorter than regulation.
Per the statement, "the center-hole" on the court was punched in the wrong place, leading to the discrepancy. The statement cited "human error by the finisher contracted by Connor Sports" as the cause of the misplaced line.