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Logan Newman

Oklahoma HS shot clock debate in focus after 4-2 basketball game (yes, that was the score)

The tweet reads: “Eagles win the offensive shootout against Anadarko.” The graphic in the post shows boys basketball players and a final score of 4-2.

For a moment, you think the graphic editor made a mistake before blasting out the tweet. Either the sport is wrong or the score is wrong. Then you re-read the photo caption and you realize the line is a joke and that the 4-2 score is, in fact, the score of a basketball game.

Twenty-seven days after the Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association voted against implementing a shot clock, the Weatherford (Okla.) High School boys basketball team outlasted the Anadarko (Okla.) High School’s team in perhaps the lowest scoring game in the nation this season.

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