This is the college rule. The NF used to "imply" that you had to stay on the court, but the wording was ambigious at best. But the picture in the NF "Simplified and Illustrated Rulebook" showed players staying on the court. So the second year after this rule was put in, the NF changed the wording and basically stated that it does not matter where the players stand as long as the players are ready by the second buzzer. This confusion was all over the NCAA rules on this issue.
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Originally posted by ur call
The other day a JV official ask me where is the rule that says players cannot sit on the bench during a 30 second timeout. A coach ask him why the could not. I thought it was easy and was going to show it to him in the NF rule book. That is when I found that it did not state in the timeout rule that they could not sit on the bench. In the mechanics manual it states it, but how can we enforce mechanics?
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