The CIAC boys and girls basketball committees voted to honor the request by the Connecticut Association of Athletic Directors Executive Board to push back its shot clock proposal to be implemented for the start of the 2023-24 at all levels.
In an email sent out by the CIAC to state athletic directors Wednesday morning and obtained by Hearst Connecticut Media, it was determined by CAAD more time was needed to have everything in place for the 2022-23 season, the proposal passed by the boys and girls basketball committees in September.
The process still has to be completely vetted by the CIAC membership to have “the use of a 35 second shot clock in girls and boys basketball at all playing levels for the 2023-2024 season,” the email states. That would include sub-varsity games.
No specifics were listed in the email, other than to say there were “several reasons given for delaying the implementation for one year.”
The reason we have even reached this point was because the National Federation of State High School Associations approved the use of a 35-second shot clock back in the spring. The state boys and girls basketball coaches, in the last survey conducted by the CIAC, were overwhelmingly in favor of having a shot clock.
Gregg Simon, the associate executive director of the CIAC, previously told Hearst Connecticut Media that he conducted a survey of the state membership this spring had 58 percent of the athletic directors in favor of the shot clock.
Once the process is vetted, it still would have to be approved by the CIAC Board of Control to have a shot clock in place.
The email to the state ADs also indicated that the divisions for both boys and girls basketball will be released on Wednesday.
joseph.morelli@hearstmediact.com; @nhrJoeMorelli
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