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In three NCAA instances where the shot clock was malfunctioning, I saw three different approaches:
One school had the PA Announcer call off at 30, 25, 15, 10, and 5 seconds. (Never got inside in 5 seconds, so I'm not sure what they would have done for a violation).
Another score had the PA announcer only call out when the shot clock was at 10 seconds. We had that appen once or twice, so it didn't pose too much of a problem.
Third situation is more wild. NCAA Women's game being played at a high school because the home team has no gym of their own. They forgot to bring the shot clocks with them, and since it was Thanksgiving weekend, nobody knew where they were or if they could get to them.
So we played with no shot clock at all. Which led to an interesting situation late in the game when our team was winning and killed off over a minute by stalling. The home fans were screaming for a shot click violation. (I guess they didn't see the lack of said equipment).
[Edited by Stat-Man on Jan 3rd, 2006 at 03:46 PM]
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