![]() ![]() The Tigers again played a tremendous half of basketball to open the game, building a 41-33 halftime advantage. Both Williams and Miller were named to the 10-person all-tournament team representing LSU. KJ Williams had his 29th career double double scoring 17 points and 10 rebounds with Justice Hill getting 12 and Adam Miller. The loss dropped LSU to 5-1 on the season and kept K-State undefeated at 6-0. I guess that is the way the rule is written. It looked like our guys had executed it well and made the play, so I’ll have to see when the clock did start. I have never been a part of a game ending that way. “I will have to look at the film and see. “It’s disappointing,” Coach Matt McMahon said afterwards. The officials brought the two coaches together explained the situation and took the LSU points off the board, sending the K-State fans into jubilation. It is a table clock operator handling all that manually. Unlike in the Southeastern Conference and most major venues, there is no system that is used where the officials can start and stop the clock. Unofficial timed video replays by other media after the game put the clip at just over five seconds. The officials brought out a stopwatch and timed the play and based on the video evidence the play was ruled to have taken longer than the 4.7 seconds that was on the clock when play resumed. While officials Jeff Anderson, John Higgins and Doug Shows went to the monitor to check on the bucket being good, it was discovered by the officials that there was a clock error. The horn sounded and it appeared the game was going to overtime as LSU celebrated. He passed the ball back to Hannibal at the top of the key and he drove pass his defender and with time apparently remaining, laid the ball in with the clock going from. He dribbled once with the clock not running and then it started as his second dribble was hitting the floor. Hannibal then tossed it in bounds back to Reed. Jalen Reed was out of bounds for the throw in and threw the ball across the out-of-bounds area to Trae Hannibal who had also moved out-of-bounds on the baseline. ![]() This is when hand on clock switch didn’t work as it should have apparently. Neither team led by more than three in the final eight minutes of the game and Kansas State had taken a 61-59 lead right at the end of the shot clock (which was reviewed) with 4.7 seconds to play.Īfter that basket was reviewed and counted, the teams then proceeded to each take their final two timeouts before play resumed with LSU having to go the length of the floor in 4.7 seconds. The finish marred an entertaining battle between SEC and Big 12 teams before an overflow crowd of some 2,400 at the first Cayman Islands Classic final in three years. GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands – An apparently slow start by the clock operator at John Gray Gymnasium in the final 4.7 seconds potentially cost LSU a chance to tie and force overtime, giving Kansas State a 61-59 victory over the Tigers in the championship game of the Cayman Islands Classic. ![]()
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