California running clock question

[crosscountry55]

And I just realized I completely misread your post. Upon further review, I think you're talking about the clock stopping after made baskets?

If so, I don't believe there is an NCAA-like clock stopping rule in CIF for 59.9 or less in the final quarter or overtime. So when you saw it happen, it was probably a clock operator who didn't understand that NFHS doesn't have such a rule. And officials who either didn't notice this or didn't bother to correct it.

Though eight states (including CA) use shot clocks, I don't know of any that use the 59.9 rule. I wouldn't mind seeing this rule added in NFHS, though. I was in a tight game last year and with about 4 seconds left Team A scored to come within 1. I looked to the Team A bench expecting a time out for sure, poised to blow a whistle for the head coach if he so much as even started to raise his hands or look my way. I thought he did (he didn't) and I blew the whistle. He was already out of timeouts; I had lost track. That was my bust; no excuses for the loss of game awareness. But the thing was, now we had an inadvertent whistle and Team B, who could have simply avoided inbounding the ball to win the game, now instead had to make a throw-in, giving Team A some leverage that they wouldn't have had. Had the clock stopped on the made basket, this wouldn't have been an issue and I wouldn't have had quite so much egg on my face.