Butler vs. Wisconsin-Milwaukee

[SamIAm]

Originally Posted by doubleringer

Agreed, but we are talking about tenths of seconds here. I think it is very difficult to have defininte knowledge of partial seconds. I think the bigger issue is one their league needs to address and that is the fact that the clock was not shown on their replay monitor.

I don't know that we are talking about tenths of a second here.

Most likely scenario here is:
A1 to A2 -> Clock starts -> A2 to A3. A3 catches ball (official starts his count). If horn goes off before or when official gets to 5, official then has reason to reset the clock.

While it is possible that the clock, if started early, did not start early enough for .9 seconds or more to have run off the clock in error it is also possible to have happened.

When faced with this situation, if you have your own count, you have done all you can to rectify any clock errors.

The fact that it is thought that the clock started early is another reason that someone (an official) should always have a count in an end of period situation.