[BillyMac]

I don't want to fully hijack SC Official's thread, but when one works as many middle school games as I have over forty years, one comes across some interesting bench/table setups, even before COVID.

One middle school gym, as in SC Official's post, had both benches on one side, and the table on the other. School decided to use bleachers (only on one side of the gym) as benches instead of dealing with folding chairs. Connections for scoreboard (and thus, the table, obviously before wireless) were only on the other side of the gym as the bleachers. Always takes a few foul calls for me to get used to this setup. We base our mechanics (two person) on the location of the table, not the benches.

Another middle school gym was more suited to be used as a bowling alley, "basketball appropriately" long, but extremely narrow. Three point lines intersected the sideline at about the distance of the free throw line extended. Barely room between the sidelines and the gym wall for inbounding players to keep their feet out of bounds. Broken lines marked on the court three feet inside that boundary to be used by players defending the inbounder. One bench and the table on one endline. The other bench on the other endline. Table, while on an endline, wasn't centered on that endlne, but was near a corner. We used that side of the court as tableside for mechanics.

Not that odd, but interesting, at another middle school, had the table up on a sideline elevated stage. Never a problem for the table to see reporting officials.

Worked private prep school varsity games in a very undersized gym. Very narrow space from one sideline to one gym wall, with both benches and the table on that side. Table top actually extended about an inch over the playing court. Had to ask bench personnel (whose feet were often inbounds) to shift sideways on the bench to make room for an inbounder. Imaginary three foot restraining line on throwins. Oddest feature, due to the extremely short length of the gym; there were three working "division lines". One "division line" (properly centered) to be used for ten second calls. Two other "division lines" (farther back from each team's basket) to be used for backcourt calls.