[Mark Dexter]

Originally Posted by Old School

Assuming HS (and for that matter NCAA too), and less than a minute to play in a close game. Any request for a TO and you put air in the whistle is a TO period.

I think I know the answery, but can you give a RULE reference as to why you'd shrug this off with more than 60 seconds remaining, but assess the TO with fewer than 60 on the clock?

We are taught in NFHS that if a coach doesn't have anymore TO's, to ignore the TO request or any attempts to try and stop the clock with 5 or less seconds remaining, particularly after a made basket.

WHAT???? If you owned a rulebook, I might think you were confusing this with the casebook play that states that violations of the throw-in boundary plane by the defense, which would result in the team's warning for the game, are to be ignored with 5 or fewer seconds in a period and the clock running. NOWHERE in the rulebook are you allowed the liberty to ignore a TO request simply because the team has none left - this isn't football.

Now here's a good one for you. 5 seconds remaining in the game, NFHS, team A down by 1 after just scoring. Team A coach requests TO that he doesn't have. You grant TO stopping the clock with 4 seconds left. Access TF to Team A. Where is the ball inbounded after the F/T's from the TF? Does the team still have inbound priviledges if from the baseline?

First off, I'm going to assess the technical foul to team A. Team B will have two shots, then B will recieve the ball for the throw-in at halfcourt - same as for any other technical foul.