2014-15 NFHS Basketball Rules by Topic - Sample Chapter

2014-15 High School

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High School Basketball Rules By Topic

National Federation of State High School Associations

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Table of Contents Topic 1 Court and Equipment ������������������� 9

Topic 13 Technical Fouls . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

Topic 2 Players, Substitutes and Coaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Topic 14 Warnings and Delays ��������������� 263

Topic 3 Scoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Topic 15 Correcting Errors ��������������������� 275

Topic 4 Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Topic 16 Time-outs, Halftime and Overtime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

Topic 5 Jump Ball and Held Ball . . . . . . . 79

Topic 17 Officials and Their Duties ������� 305

Topic 6 Free Throw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Signal Chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

Topic 7 Throw-ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Topic 8 Clock and Scorers/Timers ������� 131 Topic 9 Guarding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 Topic 10 Violations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 Topic 11 Classifications of Fouls ������������� 193 Topic 12 Contact Fouls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Topic 5

Jump Ball and Held Ball

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Key Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Topic: Jump Ball . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Topic: Jump Ball Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Ball Last Touched Simultaneously . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Topic: Held Ball . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Topic: Alternating Possession . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Scorer’s Duties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Arrow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Setting the Arrow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Starting Quarters Via Alternating Possession . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Throw-ins Via Alternating Possession . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Key Terms

A jump ball is a method of putting the ball into play to start the game and each extra period by tossing it up between two opponents in the center restraining circle, or if the ball is touched simultaneously and goes out of bounds before the alternating-possession procedure has been established (4-28-1). Team control does not exist during a jump ball but is established when a player secures control (4-12-5).

A held ball occurs when opponents have their hands so firmly on the ball that control cannot be obtained without undue roughness or when an opponent places his/her hand(s) on the ball and prevents an airborne player from throwing the ball or releasing it on a try (4-25-1, 2).

Alternating possession is the method of putting the ball in play by a throw-in other than the start of the game and the start of each extra period (6-4-1).

Fundamental #4 The jump ball, throw-in and the free throw are the only methods of getting a dead ball live.

Topic:

Jump Ball To start the game and each extra period, the ball shall be put in play in the center restraining circle by a jump ball between any two opponents (6-2-2).

The referee shall designate the official to toss the ball in the center restraining circle for all jump-ball situations (2-5-1). The ball becomes live when it leaves the official’s hand on the toss (6-1-2a).

The jump ball begins when the ball leaves the official’s hand(s) and ends when the touched ball contacts a nonjumper, the floor, a basket or backboard (4-28-2).

The clock shall be started when the tossed ball is legally touched (5-9-2).

Jump Ball: Caseplays 6.1.2 SITUATION A: Is the ball live: (a) during a free throw; (b) before the tossed ball is legally tapped; or (c) during a throw-in? RULING: Yes, in all situations.

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In Simple Terms On a jump ball, the ball becomes live when it leaves the official’s hand on the toss. However, the clock does not start until the ball is legally tapped.

Topic:

Jump Ball Administration For any jump ball, each jumper shall have both feet within that half of the center restraining circle which is farther from his/her basket (6-3-1).

When the official is ready and until the ball is tossed, nonjumpers shall not move onto the center restraining circle or change position around the center restraining circle (6-3-2a, b).

Teammates may not occupy adjacent positions around the center restraining circle if an opponent indicates a desire for one of these positions before the official is ready to toss the ball (6-3-3).

The ball shall be tossed upward between the jumpers in a plane at right angles to the sidelines. The toss shall be to a height greater than either of them can jump so that it will drop between them (6-3-4).

Until the tossed ball is touched by one or both jumpers, nonjumpers shall not have either foot break the plane of the center restraining circle cylinder or take a position in any occupied space (6-3-5a, b).

The tossed ball must be touched by one or both of the jumpers after it reaches its highest point. If the ball contacts the floor without being touched by at least one of the jumpers, the official shall toss it again (63-6).

Neither jumper shall touch the tossed ball before it reaches its highest point, leave the center restraining circle until the ball has been touched, catch the jump ball or touch the ball more than twice (6-3-7a-d).

The jump ball and the restrictions end when the touched ball contacts one of the eight nonjumpers, an official, the floor, a basket or backboard.

During a jump ball, a jumper is not required to face his/her own basket, provided he/she is in the proper half of the center restraining circle. The jumper is also not required to jump and attempt to touch the tossed ball.

However, if neither jumper touches the ball it should be tossed again with both jumpers being ordered to jump and try to touch the ball (6-3-7 note).

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COMMENT: Unless a technical foul occurs or a player violates during the dead ball, which precedes the start of the game or each extra period, the game and each extra period is started with a jump ball in the center restraining circle. A rejump may be necessary between the jumpers or, if the alternating-possession procedure has not been established, a jump ball will take place between the two players involved at the center restraining circle. These situations will be the only time a jump ball will take place in a game. In all other jump-ball situations and the start of the second, third and fourth quarters, the alternating-possession procedure arrow will determine which team will have the ball for a throw-in. The team which gains control of the jump will start the alternating procedure. The arrow is immediately set pointing toward the opponent’s basket. The alternating procedure can also be established by a violation or foul prior to control of the jump ball. Once established, the alternating procedure is used for the jump ball resulting from a held ball, an out-of-bounds situation where the officials cannot agree on who caused the ball to go out of bounds, a double violation, or when the ball lodges between the backboard and ring or comes to rest on the flange (6-4).

Jump Ball Administration: Caseplays 6 .3 .2 SITUATION: The referee is ready to toss the ball to start the game. (a) A1 who was on the center restraining circle backs off; (b) B1 moves onto the restraining circle into an unoccupied spot; (c) B2 moves off the circle and goes behind A2 and is within 3 feet of the circle; or (d) B3 moves off the circle about 5 feet and moves around behind A3 and A4 who are occupying spaces on the circle. RULING: Legal in (a) and (d), but a violation in both (b) and (c). Moving off the restraining circle in (a), and around the circle when more than 3 feet away as in (d), is permissible. It is a violation to move onto the circle as in (b), until the ball leaves the official’s hand, or into an occupied space as in (c), until the ball is touched. The violation by B results in a throw-in for Team A (4-3).

6 .3 .7 SITUATION: During a jump ball: (a) jumper A1 touches the ball simultaneously with both hands, then touches the ball with the right hand followed by the left hand; or (b) jumpers A1 and B1 do not touch the ball until one or both have returned to the floor. RULING: In (a), the initial simultaneous touching counts as the first touch, touching the ball then with the right hand is the second touch and is legal. When A1 touches the tossed ball a third time with the left hand, a violation 2014-15 Rules By Topic 83

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for touching the ball more than twice has occurred. In (b), it is legal; however, if the tossed ball contacts the floor without being touched, the official shall toss it again.

Ball Last Touched Simultaneously If the ball goes out of bounds and was last touched simultaneously by two opponents, both of whom are inbounds or out of bounds, or if the official is in doubt as to who last touched the ball or if the officials disagree, play shall be resumed by the team entitled to the alternatingpossession throw-in at the spot out of bounds nearest to where the simultaneous violation occurred (7-3-1).

If the alternating-possession procedure has not been established, play shall be resumed by a jump ball between the two players involved in the center restraining circle (7-3-2).

Rationale

The two players who knocked the ball out are responsible for the ball being out of bounds even though no control was established. To be fair, those two players are required to jump the subsequent jump ball until control is established.

Ball Last Touched Simultaneously: Caseplay 6.4.1 SITUATION C: Following the jump between A1 and B1 to start the first quarter, the jump ball: (a) is touched by A2 and it then goes out of bounds; (b) is touched simultaneously by A2 and B2 and it then goes out of bounds; (c) is simultaneously controlled by A2 and B2; or (d) is caught by A1. RULING: In (a), Team B will have a throw-in. The alternating-possession procedure is established and the arrow is set toward A’s basket when a player of Team B has the ball for the throw-in.

Team A will have the first opportunity to throw-in when the procedure is used. In (b) and (c), A2 and B2 will jump in the center restraining circle regardless of where the ball went out or where the held ball occurred. In (d), Team B will have a throw-in because of the violation and the arrow for the alternating-possession will be pointed towards Team A’s basket (4-12-1; 4-28-1).

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