Running Up The Score In Connecticut ...

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

There are no rules to govern such a game in basketball, as there is in football, where “running time” is invoked once a team is far ahead, or baseball/softball, where there is a “mercy rule” to end a game early.

While Connecticut doesn't have a "running time" rule, there is a NFHS rule that can be utilized.

5-5-3: A quarter(s) may be shortened in an emergency or at any time by mutual agreement of the opposing coaches and the referee. NOTE: A state association by adoption may institute a running clock when a specified point differential is reached at a specified time in the game.

Used this obscure rule once in my forty-year career. Brand new magnet school's first year of varsity basketball against a state powerhouse. Magnet school didn't even have their own gym, games and practices in a middle school gym. Magnet school coach just wanted the game to be over and get out of Dodge.