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Today I decided to head down to the local university and watch the mens basketball game. Awesome game with an all-star crew (Cip, Foxcroft, Hardy) for anyone who might recognize the names. They did an awesome job, made some great calls.

Now just a few things I noticed about the 3-man mechanics that I have questions on.

1. Although I thought that on fouls the calling official goes tableside, on fouls which occured in the "new" back-court there seemed to be no switching other then the trail moving to the side of the court on which the ball was to be thrown in. My question is what sort of rules govern switching after fouls.

2. In two man the non-administering official always handles subs, but in three man who's responsible for bringing the subs in?

3. Who notifies the coach and the disqualified player after 5 fouls?

It was an awesome game, close throughout, but the home team ended up winning. As I said earlier there were great calls, the referees really used the advantage/disadvantage, and had strong court presence. Hopefully someday I'll be up at that level making the great calls like they did.

And one other thing for anyone who officiates CIS womens rules. I thought that the official wasn't supposed to handle the ball on back-court violations, but in the part of the womens game I say today, it was handled in my mind very inconsistantly, sometimes the officials would handle the ball, others they didn't. What's the rule regarding this??