A New Way to End Games

by **Adunk33** » July 26th, 2018, 9:19 am

https://sports.yahoo.com/radical-new-wa ... 41174.html

Forgive me if this has been posted elsewhere.

A longer article, but an interesting one. Basically, in order to get rid of late game fouling, the clock would be taken out at the under 4 timeout in college basketball, under 3 to in the pros. Then the refs will set the game winning score as 7 points more than what the winning team currently had. There would still be a shot clock. So for example:

Under 4 timeout

Redbirds: 70
Gargoyles: 3

The game would end when the Redbirds get to 77.

TBT has adopted this and the article includes some pretty cool game endings. Every game would end on a game winning shot.

At the start of the article I didn't like the idea at all. It grew on me towards the end after watching the video clip.

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by **Majik45** » July 26th, 2018, 12:53 pm

It sounds cool at first, and there could potentially be some fun endings, but it is really a gimmick. What about the team that is up 20 and has to leave their starters in to score the last 7 points as the back-ups can't score. Or when both teams go cold and can't score at the end of the game, it becomes ugly. Just go watch the end of the Always a Brave team's loss in the first round of TBT this year. Bradley probably wins the game without the Elam ending as time would have run out.