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Originally posted by Jurassic Referee
NCAA rule 3-7-6- "Equipment shall be appropriate for basketball".
I don't think that a player wearing a shoe on his hand is gonna meet that criteria.
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The shoe
is appropriate for basketball. Players use them all the time. A glove isn't appropriate for basketball, and it is not used anywhere; hand, foot, head, etc. Granted, it wasn't being used in the "approved" manner. But, he wasn't "wearing" it on his hand, he was holding it.
I've been trying to think of another possible example, and all I can think of is this (weak?) possibility: can a player grab the bottom of their jersey, and hold it out away from their body (think bat wings) to say, deflect a pass going under their arms? The jersey is appropriate equipment. Now, in this case, I can see using the jersey this way as perhaps falling under "gaining an unfair advantage". But in the shoe instance, he wasn't using it unfairly, it was just in his hand. So, is the hand part of the shoe, or is the shoe part of the hand?