Yes the dunk went through with 2 seconds on the clock, everyone ran on the court, and they just kind of said welp NC State wins
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Pitino was a student of the Hank Iba playbook**
** reportedly the ref told the US defender to give the Commie inbounder room and he backed way off for fear of getting a T
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In that era the clock kept running after any made basket and at any time of the game (unlike today where the clock would have stopped automatically in that situation), so there was nothing Houston could do besides try and call a timeout, but the refs were all looking the other way and it probably wouldn't have been recognized.
A similar thing burned Syracuse at the end of the 87 title game when Smart's shot went in with like four seconds left and the clock ran down to one before a timeout was granted.
Ha - i just googled it and realized that, thank you. Here is a fun link:
https://www.nytimes.com/1983/04/05/sports/nc-state-wins-title-on-final-second-dunk.html
I misunderstood your post. I also forgot there was time left when the ball went through. I thought you were saying that CBS cut away before the final play.
No tenths of a second on the scoreboard in those days (although the clock you see is the real clock superimposed on the screen, not CBS's clock). The clock says "1" when the ball goes through the hoop. So "1" could be anything from 1.0 to 1.9.
And, as noted, the Houston guys had to call time out, they're just standing there shocked.
In clocks with no tenths, it's less than you think. :01 on the clock is anywhere between 0:00.0 and 0:01.0. If the clock hits 0, it's at actual zero.
Depends on the clock...especially ones from nearly 40 years ago, like that one. I used to be the timer for a high school. It clicked down a second when you turned it off, then hesitated when you turned it on. 1 second on that baby was much closer to 2 than 1.
My experience comes mostly from running football clocks, which of course don't have tenths of a second, but the console shows tenths. When you stop the clock, the scoreboard might say something like 11:12 but the physical console will read out "11:11.37"