Timing issue

[Sharmon]

The ball is being inbounded and is immediately tipped out of bounds by the DEFENCE. The official fails to start the clock on the touch. How much time, if any, should be taken off the clock, when the ball is subsequently inbounded by the offense?

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by Sharmon

The ball is being inbounded and is immediately tipped out of bounds by the DEFENCE. The official fails to start the clock on the touch. How much time, if any, should be taken off the clock, when the ball is subsequently inbounded by the offense?

NCAAW: If less than a minute remains, then a minimum of .3 must run off the clock.

[Scrapper1]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

NCAAW: If less than a minute remains, then a minimum of .3 must run off the clock.

Men, too.

[walt]

NFHS - Unless you have definitive knowledge (i.e. an arm swing count), leave the clock where it is. In your example of an immediate tip out of bounds, cannot take anything off. I don't have my book in front of me but I believe that for NFHS, even under a minute, you leave the clock where it is. NCAAW and NCAAM specifically address this under a minute situation and take off .3 sec if the game clock doesn't move.

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by walt

NFHS - Unless you have definitive knowledge (i.e. an arm swing count), leave the clock where it is. In your example of an immediate tip out of bounds, cannot take anything off. I don't have my book in front of me but I believe that for NFHS, even under a minute, you leave the clock where it is. NCAAW and NCAAM specifically address this under a minute situation and take off .3 sec if the game clock doesn't move.

Except that there is a case / annual interp to the effect that "some time, likely 10th of a second" can be take off.

Edit: From 2009-10: SITUATION 11: Team B scores a goal to take the lead by one point. A1 immediately requests and is granted a timeout with three seconds remaining in the fourth quarter. Following the time-out, Team A is awarded the ball for a throw-in from anywhere along the end line. A1 passes the ball to A2, who is also outside the boundary; A2 passes the ball to A1 who is inbounds and running the length of the court. The timer mistakenly starts the clock when A2 touches A1’s pass while standing outside the boundary. An official notices the clock starting on A2’s touch (a), before A2 releases the throw-in pass to A1, (b), while A2’s throw-in pass is in flight to A1, or (c), as soon as A1 catches the throw-in pass. RULING: This is an obvious timing mistake and may be corrected. In (a) and (b), the official shall blow the whistle, stop play and direct the timer to put three seconds on the game clock. Since the throw-in had not ended, play is resumed with a Team A throw-in from anywhere along the end line. In (c), the official may put the correct time on the clock, but must make some allowance for the touching by A1 – likely 10ths of a second, if displayed. The ball is put in play nearest to where it was located when the stoppage occurred to correct the timing mistake. A “do over” is not permitted in (c), since the throw-in had ended. (4-36; 5-10-1)

[walt]

Thanks for posting that interp. So now I have a question, how do you determine how many tenths of a second? As I know you know, NCAAW and NCAAM made it .3 by rule.