I've been reading this forum for a little while, and have definitely learned a lot. It doesn't matter how long you've been doing this; there's always some little additional tidbit to learn. I've told people that if anyone hears me say I know everything there is to know about refereeing basketball, they can take my whistle right then and drive me to the retirement village. Which, from what I understand, I could meet a couple of the people that post on this forum...
Anyway, the NCAA has just released a new interpretation (at least on the women's side) regarding free throws. The play is as follows: A1 receives the ball for the free throw from the official. B2 then violates, and the offical gives the delayed dead-ball signal. Before the 10 seconds are up, A decides to call a timeout. Now here's the fun part: after the timeout, and the teams are lined back up, if A1 misses the throw, they are awarded another because of the violation of B BEFORE the timeout. In other words, the timeout doesn't "wipe out" the delayed violation. Now, I've only been reffin' for 16 years, but even in that short time, I've never run across that situation. I've looked through the NF books, and don't see where that's addressed. What's the opinion on how would/should this be handled under Fed rules? I know there's some basis for not losing something as a result of a timeout (i.e: running the end-line after a made basket). Even though this has never happened to me before, now that I've brought it up I'm sure this will happen to me three times in the next four HS games, so do I enforce this in HS, and what can I point to in the rules?