# Lights go out at Arkansas Mississippi B-ball game

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [January 20, 2013, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lights-go-out-at-arkansas-mississippi-b-ball-game/647788 "2013-01-20T06:19:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2013, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lights-go-out-at-arkansas-mississippi-b-ball-game/647788/1 "2013-01-20T06:19:07Z")

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This may be a sports first. Lights went out for 25 minutes in Tad Smith Coliseum. Thats Mississippi’s home court.

Wonder if this has ever happened in college b-ball before?

> **[Lights go out for 25 minutes during Saturday’s Ole Miss-Arkansas game](https://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaab-the-dagger/lights-25-minutes-during-saturday-ole-miss-arkansas-210249598--ncaab.html)**
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> The promotional video Ole Miss shot before this year's basketball season features a shot of a pitch dark Tad Smith Coliseum and a player asking the question, "Are you ready to shut the lights off?" Clearly, the Rebels took that … Continue reading →

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> With 5:37 remaining in the first half on Saturday afternoon and Ole Miss leading Arkansas 24-21, the lights at the Tad Pad went dark.
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> It took 25 minutes for arena officials to get the lights back on, forcing both teams to leave the floor, return to their locker rooms and then warm up again once things were back to normal. Even after the lights came back on, arena officials apparently left the scoreboard off to conserve power.

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**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2013, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lights-go-out-at-arkansas-mississippi-b-ball-game/647788/2 "2013-01-21T15:28:02Z")

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Back in 1988 there was a power failure at Boston Gardens during game four of the Stanley Cup finals. Here is the [story](http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1314&dat=19880525&id=1r5YAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ru8DAAAAIBAJ&pg=7050,5682716).