Just 76 years after the NBA, 58 years after women’s college basketball and 43 years after men’s college basketball instituted a shot clock, the PIAA will be doing so as well.

Beginning in the 2028-29 season, all varsity and JV boys and girls basketball games in the state will use a 35-second shot clock, approved Wednesday in a unanimous vote by the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association’s board of directors in Mechanicsburg.

The 2028-29 season was proposed as the adoption year to give schools time to raise funds for the new equipment, such as scoreboards, etc., and to train officials.

“The board has done a great job of vetting this out, looking at everything, looking at prices and talking to their member schools,” PIAA Assistant Executive Director Jen Grassel said. “We follow

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