Announcer count down

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by Back In The Saddle

Near the end of the third quarter, the home team had the ball in their front court and the announcer began counting down the last few seconds. During the intermission the visiting team coach insisted that the announcer was not allowed to do that. We agreed to disagree, but the V HC was not happy (he felt the announcer was giving the home team an unfair advantage).

I'm not aware of any rule that prohibits the announcer from counting down the last few seconds. I'm not aware of any ruling from the state prohibiting it either. Have I missed anything?

There is no rule afaik but if the announcer had not done the exact same thing at the end of the first or second quarters (especially if the visitors had the ball on one of those occassions), I'd say the visiting coach had a valid point. Not much you could do though imo except maybe tell the announcer that he now had to count down the last few seconds of the fourth quarter no matter who had the ball.