Originally Posted by Camron Rust (Post 865214)

But what exactly have you approved when you left the floor? What you BELIEVED the score to be. You are approving one team as having won the game. Right or wrong, that is what was done and that is what the rule above says is final. What they tell you the book says or should have said after you're gone is not relevant.

I don't know anyone that goes over to the book after the horn...we certainly check at a timeout/break before the game ends and that should generally take care of it. We make eye contact with the scorer on the way out and if there is something different that they have, they must get your attention before you clear the gym.

Originally Posted by Camron Rust (Post 865268)

Then, if the game is over since the officials have left the gym, who won and exactly what did the officials approve? Even if the book ultimately shows something different, the score they approved is what counts.

Originally Posted by Welpe (Post 865311)

So what should our take away be from this thread? Go over at the end of a close game and visually verify the score in the book and that the books are the same?

Originally Posted by Welpe (Post 865311)

So what should our take away be from this thread? Go over at the end of a close game and visually verify the score in the book and that the books are the same?

Originally Posted by Welpe (Post 865346)

I'm not asking about close to the end of the game, I'm asking about after the game is actually over.

Originally Posted by MD Longhorn (Post 865312)

When you "approve the score", you approve that the BOOK has the correct score (and, I guess, for the OP ... that the game is actually over!). If the game is over since the officials have left the gym, then the team with more points in the BOOK (and not the pretty lights or what happens to be in the officials' heads) is what matters. The book, by definition, cannot "show something different" than the score approved because it IS the score that was (or should have been) approved.

Nodding at the scorekeeper or making eye contact is NOT approving the score.

Originally Posted by OKREF (Post 865351)

It was right here.

Originally Posted by Welpe (Post 865354)

Read my post again.

Originally Posted by Camron Rust (Post 865352)

When you check with the scorer as you leave the floor with the board showing 54-55, you're asking them if they have the same....when they indicate they don't have anything different, that is what you've approved.

Originally Posted by Adam (Post 865355)

No is the answer. Check right before the end, look at the running score and verify everyone matches. Tell them that they need to let you know if there's an issue.

Originally Posted by Welpe (Post 865362)

The reason I ask is that it seems this procedure failed this time but maybe a contingency to handle two inept score keepers is not really feasible.