NCAA Tournament to use Precision Timing

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Originally Posted by Danvrapp

For those of us that don't work college, what would they need to "support?" I'm guessing it's just a little receiver that sits on/near the table and receives a signal from the pack on the official's hip.

Why would an old football stadium be any different?

Thanks for the insight!

I'm not an expert on the devices, but I'm pretty sure it is contained entirely on the official as far as equipment. To start the clock, they push a button on the pack attached to their waist. They attach a microphone-like device on their shirt (See the Lauren Holtkamp picture in the shoe thread) which picks up whistle frequency and stops the clock. I think the technology part had to do with syncing the timing packs to the clocks in the arenas. I'm not sure how that works though.