Originally Posted by chartrusepengui

true - but we've been told when any fraction of a minute occurs - go to the next full minute in our area. We do have "conference" of home schoolers that only use 7 min for JV qtrs and OT is 4 minutes there too.

Originally Posted by kbilla

Assuming you recognize that you shouldn't have chopped when the jumpers touched the ball...if done correctly, you would have chopped when it hit "someone", and the clock would have run....BUT, I suppose you would have to have definite knowledge of how much time ran off from the time the ball was touched to the time it went out of bounds in order to reset it at all...othewise I would have left it where it was even though I chopped when I shouldn't have - you must have definite knowledge to reset the clock to anything. From there, on the second jump ball, if the clock moved at all you could have reset it to where it was before you threw the second jump since you have definite knowledge that it shouldn't have run at all...