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So as supervisor of officials for my university's IM basketball, I get to work all the big games...what fun. Elite 8 game tonight, I'm working with two of my better student officials. Team A is down 2 with 10 seconds to go. Now, two interesting things about my this sitch...

1) We have no scoreboards/clock. The score is kept on a flip scoreboard and the clock is kept by a handheld stop watch that runs up. The time is counted down by the person keeping the book.

2) One of the players on Team A is one of my officials...keep that in mind.

Anyways...Team A is down 2 with 10 seconds to go and has the ball. I'm C, table side and have the last shot (we play NCAA rules, but to keep it simple for my officials, we use the FED mechanic for last shot...Center). Team A works the ball inside (3...2...1) and gets the shot off right before I hear 0 from the table...misses the layup and once the try is over I blow the game over immediately and with a really strong whistle. As I'm blowing the play dead and game over, A2 tips the ball in and all of Team A for some reason thinks that the bucket is good. I blow it dead, my partners and I converse for a second to make sure we get it right, and wave the tip off. Team A obviously goes crazy. Here's the funny part. The official that is playing for Team A comes up to me..**** you, you blew the game... That's not even your call, it's the lead's call on last shot and you know it! Something in me thinks that the IM faculty will listen to the pleas that I've been making for 2 years to get scoreboards!