Running clock & thoughts from officials

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by BktBallRef

Stop it during timeouts and FTs, end of story.

I do plenty of running clock games for kids rec including HS rec, in which they play running halves. We stop the clock only when there's a timeout. The clock runs during free throws. Usually, we go to stop clock in the last two minutes if the point spread, er, I mean differential is less than 10. However, in 3rd and 4th grade games, it runs the entire game regardless of the score.

When you work with a kids rec league and they have only so much gym rental time to fit in games, running clock is the best way to go.