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Clemson-Duke Clock Incident Revisited (2008 C&P)

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The ACC front office acknowledged an error was made, and so to in some respects has David McClure.

Coordinator of Officials John Clougherty issued a statement recognizing a crucial officiating error in the Jan. 25 Clemson-Duke game at Cameron Indoor Stadium.

According to television replays, a mistake by the clock operator and officials allowed Duke approximately two extra seconds to run a play that resulted in the Blue Devils defeating the Tigers 68-66 on a last-second shot.

“The league acknowledges that a timing error was made in not starting the game clock at the correct time, when the ball was stolen by Clemson’ Vernon Hamilton off the in-bounded pass from Duke’s Josh McRoberts,” Clougherty said in a press release.

“We came to this conclusion after completing a review of the game film as well as internal conversations with the crew of officials, both head coaches and conference office staff. At this point, as with most league officiating matters, this situation has been handled and resolved internally.”

The clock stopped after a made basket, reading 5.0 seconds following Hamilton’s converted driving layup that cut Duke’s lead to 66-63.

It read 1.8 following Hamilton’s 3-pointer from the top of the key that tied the game at 66-66. But officials Tom Lopes, John Cahill and Mike Kitts watched replays of the sequence on a courtside television monitor and determined the clock should have read that 4.4 seconds remained.

Television replays, however, showed that the clock did not start when Hamilton touched the ball, but once the ball entered the cylinder of the basket. It also showed that the clock kept running when it should have stopped once the ball on Hamilton’s three fell through the basket.

ESPN superimposed its own clock on the screen and discovered an additional two seconds should have run off the clock during Hamilton’s steal and made shot. The play should have begun with 2.4 seconds remaining.

The ruling was important because Duke used nearly all of the 4.4 seconds for Jon Scheyer to dribble just beyond half-court, pass to a cutting McClure in the free throw lane, whose floater was released just before time expired. McClure’s field goal gave Duke the victory.

McClure doesn’t think anything was taken away from his dramatic moment.

“Not really,” he said Friday afternoon at Cameron. “I mean, it turned out the way it did. It was controversy but it was in our favor. It’s something that whether it’s questioned or no matter how many times people look at it they can’t take away the outcome.”

They can’t, but it’s not forgotten by either side.

Tigers’ coach Oliver Purnell said the miscue isn’t why Clemson lost.

“I have not thought about last year’s game very often,” he said. “The situation with the clock has been talked about a lot and I understand that. But, it did not cost us the game, it cost us an opportunity to win in overtime.”

Duke senior captain DeMarcus Nelson vividly and fondly remembers the game. Asked if he thinks Clemson’s players remember it like he does, Nelson there’s no doubt the Tigers do.

“They probably feel like they were cheated or whatever about that game,” he said. “There were a lot of things going on about the clock, (but) this is a new year, these are two new teams and it’s about us going out there and continuing our progress as a team.”

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Clemson-Duke Clock Incident Revisited (2008 C&P)

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