Last night I had a game that constituted the last district game of the season as well as the year for two teams (Middle of the District Teams). However, these two teams are only a couple of miles apart and are therefore, huge rivals (typically schedule each other as the last game of district for this reason). Very evenly matched and well played game (In fact it went to overtime on a last second bank 3 pointer and should have gone double OT as the Visiting Team missed a wide open lay-up at the buzzer). Visiting team is making a run and cut the 10 point deficit to 1 with 1:30 to go in the game. Crowd is going wild. Visiting coach calls a timeout and I grant it as appropriate. He then asks me how many he has left. I tell him I will check and he proceeds with his team in the timeout. I check with the official book (who of course is affiliated with the home team) and she tells me that the Home team has 3 fulls and that the Visiting team has 1 full. At the end of the timeout, I tell the visiting coach he has 1 full left (per the home book) and as a courtesy tell the Home coach what he has. We resume play. Visiting team subsequently steals the ball and requests their final timout. Here is the problem. The home book and official scorer miss informed me and they actually had zero timeouts left! Claims she looked at the book wrong.
I'd like to hear the boards thoughts on how they would handle this situation and then I will tell you what we did.....
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Wed Feb 12, 2003, 11:16am
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