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Something similar happened around here a few years ago during a playoff game I went to watch -- not to work (thank God!!). 3.4 seconds left, TO after made basket, so team down by 3, who has the ball, can run the baseline. They throw a pass out of bounds followed by a pass down 3/4s of the court to about the 3 point line a third or so of the way between the top of the key and the corner. Buzzer goes off when he starts to dribble. From replays, I saw that the lead official realizes clock started too soon (on first OOB pass) about the time the buzzer went off.
To make a very long story as short as possible, they replayed it, putting it back at the baseline, but this time, the clock operator accidentally put 3 minutes, 40 seconds on the clock as he couldn't differentiate that on his clock from 3.4 seconds. During this sequence, thee buzzer never goes off, but the clock runs. The long inbounds pass is stolen, the ball is thrown up in the air for jubilation purposes, and when it comes down, the team behind grabs the ball and sinks a 2 point shot. Then, everyone realizes the clock was set wrong. Instead of calling that the game (there were at least 4-5 seconds in all that play), they decide to do it ONE MORE TIME. It ended up with the team ahead winning, but I swear, there would have been a riot there had the team behind tied the game and eventually won.
Know what's on the clock and when it should go off.
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