Saw this in a varsity boys game over the weekend. Team A with ball OOB underneath their own basket. Inbound ball pass it around perimeter for about 10 seconds timer spaces out and does not run clock. Crew does a "do over" and resets game underneath and does the 10 seconds over again. Is this correct?

Did the clock run at all?

My guess would be that they realized the clock hadn't started and an official blew his/her whistle. At that point, probably got together to see if there was definte knowledge of how much time had ran off. My guess is that there wasn't so they inbounded the ball again with basically no time running off the clock. Just a guess...

ripcord, if this is close to the beginning or middle of a quarter it's not nearly as big of deal like if there was under 30 seconds left.
Did any shots take place?
Did the ball stay in control of the inbounding team?
I would say the officials blew the ball dead in order to wake up the timer rather than for a do-over.
That's where you remind the timer to stay with his "A game" or he'll get you in trouble with coaches and fans.

Hey, I thought you had school-work to get back to. ??

LOL... Going to do it after my game tonight, which I'm leaving for right now.

Nope, they can't take any time off the clock unless they have definite knowledge of <b>exactly</b> how much time needs to be taken off. There was no rules justification for the crew to give a "do-over" in that situation.

NFHS rule 5-10.

For the love of God, not again!:D

Well you are saying they cant do both and they had to do one. Either doover or start the game after guessing how much time came off the clock.

So what else is there? Either put the ball back in play with clock adjusted, or put the ball back in play with clock not adjusted. The second one is going to look like a do-over.

The only other choice is to get the clock going without killing the ball. But if the timer is really spaced out royal, you just have to whistle it dead, and...

...what, exactly?

I'm not a betting person, but if I were, I'd give you 100 to 1 that JR will comment on the use of the word "guess". You can't "guess". YOU have to have certain knowledge.