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I'm not a Basketball referee (I do Softball, Baseball, & am involved with Football), so I don't have a current rule book. Question arose from a discussion about an unfortunate sequence of events I witnessed.
Situation: A player (though the question could apply to a coach) reacts extremely and inappropriately to a call, and gets technicals & ejected. So far, so good. The reaction to the ejection is an even more extreme case of bad behavior, which delays the game close to 10 min. before things can go on. Coaching staff did not contribute to the scene, but did little to resolve it for quite a while. Referee took no further action, except to wait it out.
On the diamond, the manager can also be ejected for uncontrolled actions of team members (or if the actual culprit cannot be identified). On the football field, additional personal fouls for unsportsmanlike conduct can and have been called after an ejection. The idea is to not hand someone ejected a free pass for further misbehavior; the team will be penalized.
But in basketball (NFHS),
1. Can additional technicals (and therefore free throws for the other team) be assessed to someone already ejected?
2. Is there such a thing as a "team technical foul", or must they be assessed to someone, possibly leading to their disqualification & suspension?
3. Is/can/must the head coach be charged with technical fouls for individual or group infractions actually comitted by 1+ others?
Hopefully, no event such as this will arise again, but if it does, I'm curious what the requirements and discretionary actions for the referees are?
Thanks in advance for the interp.
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Panda Bear
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