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NCAA rules define "Substitute" explicitly:
Rule 4.
Section 6. Bench Personnel
Art. 1. Bench personnel includes anyone in the team bench area and substitutes.
Section 56. Substitute
Art. 1. A substitute is a team member who has reported to the scorers table that he or she wishes to become a player and is waiting at the scorers table to be beckoned into the game by an official.
Later, though, it gets confusing:
Rule 10.
Section 3. Indirect Technical Fouls
The following shall result in an indirect technical foul being charged to a team or player:
Art. 5. Substitution
a . A substitute shall not enter the playing court without reporting to the scorers, without the substitutes name appearing on the pregame squad list or without being beckoned onto the playing court by an official (unless between halves or before an extra period ) .
Section 7. Direct Technical Fouls for Unsporting Conduct of Bench Personnel and Followers
Any bench personnel or followers of a team shall be assessed a direct technical foul for the following unsporting conduct:
Art. 7. Entering the playing court unless done with the permission of an official to attend to an injured player (see exceptions under bench-area restrictions).
So Article 5 covers a situation that can't happen---the player isn't a substitute without reporting, so a substitute can't enter the court without reporting.
I think the intent is clear even though the language isn't. If a player comes off the bench and replaces another player without reporting to the table, this would be an indirect technical foul (even though that player isn't a technically substitute according to Rule 4). If the player comes off the bench and onto the playing floor for any other reason, that's a direct technical foul. In the former case, the coach doesn't share the blame; in the latter, he/she does.
The bottom line is that we have to judge intent in this situation.
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