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Stanford time keeper helping out UTSA by not taking time off clock.

No, that was an advantage for Stanford.   UTSA had to bring it in with 10.9 on the clock instead of 13.5.

Yes, as PaloAlto surmised, this is per the rules, but you have to go to the case book.  The official must stop play when he notices it, and he must put the correct time on the clock (with replay, the expired time is to be measured by a stopwatch (physical, or part of replay system)) and resume play.  There is a specific statement that forbids the officials from restarting from the point that the timing error began (the throw-in).

Inasmuch as you are unquestionably the Rules guru around here -- and given that I haven't looked anything up -- I accept without question that the law says what you say there.  But, to paraphrase Mr. Bumble, of Oliver Twist fame, if the law says that, "the law is a ass -- a idiot..."  A radio glitch or the slip of the ref's finger on the clock starter button can determine the outcome of a game [see my earlier hypothetical involving only very slightly different circumstances] when there is no good reason or need for that to happen.

The NCAA promptly closed the Lanning loophole recently when it was exploited on the football field; they should do the same on the basketball floor.

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Stanford time keeper helping out UTSA by not taking time off clock.

No, that was an advantage for Stanford.   UTSA had to bring it in with 10.9 on the clock instead of 13.5.

Yes, as PaloAlto surmised, this is per the rules, but you have to go to the case book.  The official must stop play when he notices it, and he must put the correct time on the clock (with replay, the expired time is to be measured by a stopwatch (physical, or part of replay system)) and resume play.  There is a specific statement that forbids the officials from restarting from the point that the timing error began (the throw-in).

Inasmuch as you are unquestionably the Rules guru around here -- and given that I haven't looked anything up -- I accept without question that the law says what you say there.  But, to paraphrase Mr. Bumble, of Oliver Twist fame, if the law says that, "the law is a ass -- a idiot..."  A radio glitch or the slip of the ref's finger on the clock starter button can determine the outcome of a game [see my earlier hypothetical involving only very slightly different circumstances] when there is no good reason or need for that to happen.

The NCAA promptly closed the Lanning loophole recently when it was exploited on the football field; they should do the same on the basketball floor.