[Cajun Reff]

This scenario happened Friday night (Feb 22) in a Class 5A game in the first round of the louisiana boys state playoffs. I went to the HL Bourgeois (Houma, LA) vs Southwood (Shreveport, LA) game as a spectator and here is the set up:

Three man crew (Baton Rouge, LA Association) Reff (R1) is a very senior guy, Umpire 1 (U1) is another senior guy and the third guy (U2) is a 2nd or 3rd year probably working his first Boys Playoff Game.

Southwood has the ball on their own baseline the inbounds spot is on the same side of their court as their bench, score is HL Bourgeois 68, Southwood 66, 1:36 left in the fourth. SW calls :30sec timeout, U2 administers TO at table, R1 has ball on the inbounds spot, U1 takes position on opposite lane during TO. Kid from SW checks in before the first horn, U2 acknowledges him. First horn sounds, SW and HLB take the floor, all ten players mingle and pass through U2 by the table. U2 counts 10 players then crosses the court to the C position, U1 comes up the floor to the trail in front of the table. As U2 leaves the table side, a kid from SW comes onto the court from the SW bench into the traffic of players heading to the baseline for the inbounds. U1/U2 do not see him and R1 is blocked by the players. SW sets up for their inbounds play, R1 looks at his crew, everything appears to be in order, R1 hands the SW player the ball and begins his count. the HLB coach is screaming 6 men on the court, the crowd picks it up and R1 blows his whistle. R1 and U1 count the players, realize that 6 SW players are on the court and then go to the table to confer. They rule official's correctable error, and because the ball was not inbounded, SW is allowed to take the extra man off and the HLB coach goes nuts because the ball was handed to SW for the inbounds and should have been considered "live." The R1 denies the HLB claim and the game is eventually won by HL Bourgeois, 75-68

It was a very crazy sequence of events