[BillyMac]

Thanks everyone.

Had a prep school game yesterday in which the shot clock operator, a high school age young lady, started the shot clock when the ball went through the basket. My partner and I noticed this after a few complaints from the crowd regarding differences between our ten second counts, and the time left on the 35 second shot clock. My partner noted that the shot clock was winding down when the ball was still out of bounds after a made basket. We got together during a timeout to discuss this, but since neither of us are NCAA officials, we decided that she probably knew the rule better than we did, so we let it go. She was wrong. We were wrong. Now I know the rule, and I will email the rule to my partner. "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." By the way, after further review, the correct procedure is buried in the cursory handout we all receive noting the hybrid rule differences for these prep school games, so I can't blame my screwup on bad training.