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Originally Posted by Freddy
Intent with this response is not in order to "outdo" the poster, with whom I truly sympathize re. 1:10 min. games.
Paid my way through college doing those kinds of games, except back then we had real jump balls. 1:10 woulda been a very short game back then. Closer to 2:00 was quite common. Happy for A-P arrow!
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Originally Posted by Stat-Man
I think that's par for the course at this level. I had a CYO JV Girls #3 game (4th graders with possibly a couple of third graders) this afternoon. The visiting coach thought she got 3 full and 1 partial time out per half until my partner and I corrected her. 
For the first couple of timeouts, the teams were slow to come out. Thankfully, though, they got better as the game progressed. Our game went scoreless until there were 4 1/2 minutes left in the 4th quarter. The final score: 2-1.
Our game took about an hour; it might still be going if we called everything the officials in the stands wanted called. 
To stay on topic, I've never been aware of any cap on timeouts since I first became involved with basketball in the mid-80s. In fact, I remember a CYO game from about 2004 (before I officiated) where the game went into double OT and the home coach had yet to call a timeout, leaving her with 7--5 fulls and 2 partials--to use at her discretion. |
I feel for you gentlemen. Additionally we only had a 3 minute halftime -- I did a boys Freshman game the other night that we completed in 57 minutes, including prayer, national anthem, lineups
and a 10 minute halftime. In comparison this girls game was like pulling teeth. The score was tied with 2 minutes remaining -- we seemed destined for overtime and I had to will one of the teams to score.
Had the same level girls game with different teams a few hours later and the game took 48 minutes. Go figure.