Shot clock malfunction

[zenman]

NCAA Mens Basketball game.
9 seconds remain on the shot clock the clock malfunctions and stops resets to 35. The officials notice and stop to correct. After reviewing they first determine there were 11 seconds to run off. This of course would cause a shot clock violation. They decide to ignore this and give the team with the ball 3 seconds on shot clock.

Did they do the correct thing in this case?

[Nevadaref]

Originally Posted by zenman

NCAA Mens Basketball game.
9 seconds remain on the shot clock the clock malfunctions and stops resets to 35. The officials notice and stop to correct. After reviewing they first determine there were 11 seconds to run off. This of course would cause a shot clock violation. They decide to ignore this and give the team with the ball 3 seconds on shot clock.

Did they do the correct thing in this case?

I can't see how any officiating crew could render such a decision. You must not have the facts straight.

[zenman]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

I can't see how any officiating crew could render such a decision. You must not have the facts straight.

Actually I think I was mistaken there were 6 seconds when it malfunctioned. The announcers on ESPN said that the ref originally signaled it would be the defense's ball but changed it. I was counting during the replay and it clearly was at least 11 seconds.

But yes they did do this.

[Nevadaref]

"Mich vs Minn today"

Well that explains it. Was Ed Hightower perhaps was working that contest?

[zenman]

It was Ed's call to make

It was hard to find anything in the rule book that covers this so I assumed the refs had to make the call on how to handle.

I thought it should have been defense ball and a time correction made.
The coach didn't make an issue so he seemed ok with it.

[M&M Guy]

I was watching that game, and noticed the problem as well. Actually, what happened was the after resetting the shot clock after a shot, both the game clock and shot clock stopped for a period of time, then started again. The shot clock ran down to 9 before Donnie Gray blew the whistle to stop play. Ed spent a long time at the monitor, determined that 11 more seconds should've run off the clock, then made the determination that it wouldn't be fair to penalize the team with a shot clock vioation since the team didn't know the clock should've run down, so they only took off 6 seconds off both the game and shot clock, and played from there. As it turned out, there was a shot clock violation anyway after 3 seconds.

That is what the announcers were told. I really hope there was another reason.