Tim Higgins belt

[BktBallRef]

Originally posted by tjones1

I'm with Snake, Tony if you could, please fill us in on why they aren't using it anymore. Thanks.

It hasn't previously been used in the NCAA tourney because not all sites have it and they were unwilling to buy it. There are quite a few conferences and schools that don't use it. Watch different conferences and you'll see that some use it and some don't.

Originally posted by tmp44
For those of you that have used the PTS, did you like it? Did you have any problems with it?

Usually, it works as designed. The school I'll work at tomorrow night has it but the last time I was there, one pack didn't work. Most schools buy a 4th pack as a backup. The biggest issue is the batteries. They have to be repalced after two games and PTS wants you to by them from them. Schools complain they are too expensive.

This year, we've had one school add it, one school send it back, and one school stop using it because they could get it to work with the new timing console they had purchased.

Overall, I enjoy using it. I just wish everyone had it, so that you wouldn't have to adjust your mechanics on a night to night basis.

Originally posted by rockyroad
There were several NBA/WNBA officials and an evaluator at a camp I attended...they talked about the PTS system, and were even laughing about the fact that the NBA tracks which one of the officials gets the clock started correctly the most often. I was never sure if they were just joking around about that or not...can the PTS track that kind of thing?

The system the NBA using is much more complex and expensive than the version that colleges and high schools buy. But yes, the NBA system records when the whistle was blown, by which official, and also who restarts the clock.

And yes, it will work with whistles besides the Fox. Many people think it responds to that particular tone of whistle but it doesn't. For example, prior to the game, you blow lightly into the mic to make sure the clock will stop. But the whistle must be one that the mic picks up the sound of "air." I have had the mic slide down my lanyard and it wouldn't stop the clock.

[Edited by BktBallRef on Feb 9th, 2006 at 03:02 PM]