Interesting Tip-Off Time
 

Was browsing my alma mater's (Doane College in Nebraska) website for their basketball schedule when I noticed they will be traveling to Omaha to take on Nebraska-Omaha at a game that tips off at midnight local time. You enter the gym on Saturday, and leave it on Sunday. Cool! I'm gonna be there! :D

Is this going to lead in to something like one of those questions about reffing a game on a cruise ship that crosses the International Date Line while you're administering a 10 second back court count? :p

Nah, unless someone else is going to play that joke. This apparently is serious business. I would love to see who the officials are for this. How many of us would try working a game at this time? Remember this is NCAA Div. II (Nebraska-Omaha) vs. NAIA Div. I (Doane).

I once worked a kids tournament in which the championship game didn't tip off until almost 10:30 on a Sunday evening. It was the fifth game I worked that day starting at 10:00 am. I hope whoever works your game takes a really good nap that afternoon. http://www.runemasterstudios.com/gra...ages/sleep.gif

Is it, perchance, on the first day that games are allowed? That would make some sense as a promotional event.

D2 pay, somewhere between $175-225? I think I would do it. :cool:

wow, NAIA D2 pay in down south a bit in KS is only $160/game...

Mark:

The game on the cruise ship would have to use FIBA rules and it is an eight (8) second count in the backcourt.

MTD, Sr.

I am pretty sure a lot of D-1 schools have a "Midnight Madness" game to tip off the season on the first day they are allowed to have games. It's not really that unusual.

Did you know that seconds are the only common unit between the metric and English systems? :p

You realize you just spoiled Padgett's entire day. Oh well, he can cross the dateline and live it all over again. :p

I think N-Omaha is NCAA D2, not NAIA.

They are. The are in the MIAA conference

I looked on their website. It's their fourth game of the season.

BTW - the TV show "Leverage" last night was about a gym in Nebraska. It made the state seem like it was populated by a bunch of hillbillies stuck in the 1800s. It was about a crooked fight promoter. Of course, the good guys won in the end.

Yeah, there aren't any hills in Nebraska.

There are a few, but they're right near the Colorado and Wyoming borders; and they still managed to make a straight road all the way across without hitting any hills.

Huh? According to whitepages.com, there's tons of them. Not as many as in California, of course. :D

Now, wait a minute.

Who Will Be The Last To Switch To Metric: The USA Or Liberia ???
 

As are minutes, hours, days, and years. Maybe amperes?

I too was surprised at how accurately they were able to depict life in Nebraska.

Although cultures have used hours to denote the passage of time for hundreds of years, the "second" is considered to be a metric unit. I once asked one of my college professors why. He said because the International Bureau of Weights and Measures says so.

Of course, that organization is located in France. :p

It is also an English unit (foot-pound-second).

And the French don't define it, nature does. The second is the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the cesium 133 atom.

Mbyron, Are you in the quality or metrology fields?

If that is the measurement of a second how could it have been scientifically defined prior to the 20th Century?

And why is that the measurement?

1. Prior to the development of chronometers capable of measuring microseconds, the sidereal second was sufficiently precise.

2. It matches a sidereal second pretty closely. If you're asking why cesium 133, I don't know the answer to that one. Sorry!

2 is easy. cesium 132 wasn't quite long enough, and cesium 134 was too long.

Finally something that makes sense in this silly thread. :p

Is that your standard response to coaches clamoring for a '3 second call'?:D

Yeah: "not enough Cs 133 periods, coach." :p

My standard response is, "Coach, that wasn't three seconds even in dog years."

BTW - are dog years metric? I hope not. WOOF.

BTW - I guess based on FEEBLE rules, trapezoids are metric. :D

Amperes and volts are metric.

MTD, Sr.

MBryon:

You are my kind of guy: from NE Ohio; :D.

MTD, Sr.

Youngstown (Ohio) Liberty H.S., Class of 1969
Youngstown State Univ., Bach. of Civil Engr., Class of 1980
Trumbull Co. Bkb. Off. Assn., Member since 1971.

Actually, Doane's fifth game of the season, Nebraska-Omaha's season opener after an exhibition against Iowa State.

Le Système International D'unités ???
 

I already know that. I'd like to know if amperes, like seconds, are used in both the English system, and the metric system. If not, what is the English system equivalent of an ampere?

According to a HS kid I asked, it's the "pierced-ere".

OK - I promise I'll look for my meds. :p

The Imperial system has distinct units for length, volume, and weight. Anything defined in terms of those (force, velocity, acceleration, work, etc.) will have distinctive units.

E-M stuff is generally cross-system (amps, volts, joules, coulombs, ohms, farads, etc.) unless it involves weight or length (e.g. horsepower vs. watt).

We all know who should be moderating this thread now.

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And, since N-O is the home team, it's probably the first day D-II schools are allowed to have a contest.

I believe so...several other D-II schools I looked up for the heck of it have their season openers on the same day. UNO will be an interesting one, because the parking basically sucks on their campus to start with. Oh wait, maybe this will be a blessing because noone would be caught dead on a college campus at that hour! :D

very intersting what they are doing

I believe last year ESPN2 or ESPNU had a 24 hours of college basketball deal where games were being played around the clock. Perhaps this fits into that deal.