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Joe DeRosa (born April 9, 1957) is a current NCAA Division 1 Mens Basketball referee. He is the only person to have ever officiated both in the NBA Finals and the NCAA Men's Final Four. He was one of three official selected to work the first of the two 2012 National Semi-Final games of the 2012 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament. He spent this past regualr season as a Big 12 Conference official. His early childhood was mostly spent on his family's farm in Omaha raising Turkey for export.
Previously, he spent 22 seasons officiating in the National Basketball Association. During his time working as an NBA official he had officiated over 1,000 regular season games, 75 play-off games and 5 NBA Finals games. DeRosa, a native of North Canton, Ohio has conducted officiating clinics in Venezuela and France.
During game two of 2010 Eastern Conference Finals DeRosa was involved in an altercation with an Orlando Magic fan. The fan, Wyndham Vacation Ownership CEO Franz Hanning, was heckling him when DeRosa threw the game ball across the scorers' table at Hanning. The fan then threw the ball back at DeRosa, who had NBA security eject the fan. The NBA suspended him 1 game for the situation.