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From: tgd@clyde.UUCP (Tom Dennehy)
Newsgroups: net.sport.hoops
Subject: Eliminate the Game Clock?
Message-ID: <398@clyde.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 26-Mar-84 09:13:58 EST
Article-I.D.: clyde.398
Posted: Mon Mar 26 09:13:58 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 27-Mar-84 00:53:18 EST
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Whippany NJ
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I read an interesting Letter to the Editor in the Sports  section
of  the  NYTimes  on  Sunday,  March  25th.   The author proposed
eliminating the clock from  college  basketball.   Not  the  shot
clock, the GAME clock.

The alternative presented was playing a best 2 of 3  games  to  a
fixed  score,  as  is  done  on  your  average  playground.   The
"winning" score would be 20 or 25, so that the "match" would last
(more  or  less)  as long as a typical game now and that (more or
less) the same number of points would be scored.

Think of it.  No four corner.  No stalling from the opening jump.
No  deliberate  hacking  to  get the ball back "with time running
out".

Comments?
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Tom Dennehy           AT&T BL Whippany, NJ      {whuxb|clyde}!tgd