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Originally posted by tjchamp
Nevada,
I'm not sure I follow your argument. The coach made a decision to legally change a designated starter. He wasn't forced to make the change. When the original starter was benched in favor of the person the coach selected to shoot the free throw, he became bench personnel, like any other non starter.
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A few years back the NFHS and NCAA clarified a ruling with regard to who can shoot the free throws that result from a technical foul that occurs prior to the "actual" start of the game. The rules clarification did not change the rule or any existing casebook plays. The correct way to handle the situation has been the same for well over 40 years.
I do not have my rules books in front of me (there still up there Chuck, LOL), so I cannot give exact rules references:
The rules that states that any player(s) including incoming subsitute(s) can shoot the free throws that result from a technical foul. (The NCAA states that the same player must shoot both free throws for a given technical foul, while each of the two free throws for a given technical foul can be shot by different players.)
The rules also state that a team cannot change its starting line-up with incurring a technical foul, unless the starter is being replaced due to injury, illness, or disqualification.
But the rule regarding who can shoot a free throw for a technical foul trumps the rule regarding changing the starting line-up for the following reason:
Under "normal" circumstances a game starts with a jump ball at the center circle. When a technical foul has occured prior to the jump ball, the game is to considered to have started with the action that was deemed a technical foul, therefore the game has already started even if the free throws for the technical foul are not shot until game time and thus anybody including incoming substitutes can shoot the free throws resulting from the technical foul.
The starter(s) that were replaced cannot return to the game until the first opportunity to subsitutle after the clock has started.
MTD, Sr.