Officials err in OT game

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NFHS Case Play:

2.11.10 Situation C: The scorer mistakenly credits a field goal by A1 to B1 and Team B in the second quarter. The regulation game ends with the score tied. During a time-out in overtime, the scorer detects the mistake and advises the referee.

Ruling: The referee will have the mistake corrected. The overtime will continue with the corrected score. Once the ball becomes live in the overtime, the overtime will be played even though a subsequent correction of an error or mistake changes the score. A bookkeeping mistake can be corrected at any time until the final score is approved.

As in this case the overtime was in progress.
Once you start the overtime, you must complete it even if the error was previous.

The situation in this game was that there was only one person keeping score and they did not keep the running score, only the players points.

The visiting team did not have a book. Why the Post-Dispatch came up with a totally different score is unknown. The officials conferred with the scorekeeper at a timeout before the game was over and were told the book matched the scoreboard.

We all know of situations where the table has a couple of people that don't pay any attention to the game. We just have to figure out how to deal with the errors and practice good game management. It is just part of the game and is not limited to just basketball. I always try to watch the scoreboard to make sure things are right. If not we ususally hear it from the fans yelling at us that the score is wrong.