No working Shot Clocks

[Stat-Man]

Originally Posted by paulsonj72

Did anyone watch the San Diego St/Fresno St game on ESPNU last night. For the last 5 minutes or so there were no working shot clocks so they had to keep it at the scorers table and have the PA announcer give out the time remaining. IN all seriousness what is the procedure if BOTH shot clocks fail

I've seen college shot clocks malfunction twice in my time as a statistician. Both times were on the road, for what it's worth.

In one instance, it happened during the game before ours at a tournament, I believe the PA announcer would call out 30-15-10-5-0 as appropriate. I don't recall if they shot clocks got fixed before our game or if we went through the same protocol.

In the other case, in a game played years later, the upper half of the seven-segment LED numbers in either shot clock wouldn't light up. The officials directed the PA announcer to announce when the shot clock was down to 10. Amazingly, that only happened once for the entire game.