Thanks for your input Nevada.
To answer a couple of your questions.
- We did get a summary of rules. We were using NFHS rules with modifications for T-O's, blow-outs, multiple OT's
- Assignor was nowhere around (He's a friend from my HS board, he was working games elsewhere. But tourney director was at the table when incident happened; he noticed clock stoppage also. He helped by keeping the very muscular, losing assistant coach out our sitting area after the game .
- At the end of the 3rd OT White hit a 3-pointer to tie game with about 3 seconds remaining and the timer didn't stop the clock. I remember distinctly b/c Blue neither called time-out nor attempted to inbound the ball. Time ran out with the ball bouncing underneath the basket
This is one I'm going to send into our former HS board interpreter. She's loves dissecting sitiuations like this.