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Boeheim's Army has mastered experimental Elam Ending so far in TBT

Syracuse, N.Y. -- John Gillon and Eric Devendorf still dislike it. They still wonder why The Basketball Tournament games can't ebb and flow the way James Naismith intended: With a clock that determines when the contest concludes.

But both Boeheim's Army players have had a weekend in TBT to acclimate to the Elam Ending, which depending upon your perspective is either an innovative or blasphemous way to determine a basketball winner.

To recap how it works: When the game clock reaches 4 minutes in the fourth quarter and there is a stoppage of play, the clock turns off.