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Originally Posted by walter
In NCAA it is required. In the high school games I do, the Board I belong to has declared that we do NOT inform the coaches. The rationale is due to a state tournament situation a couple of years ago where the official scorer provided the wrong info to an official and subsequently, a "T" ended up being given later on when the Coach requested and was granted his last timeout when in fact he didn't have any left. After that, our Board's executive committee decided that our officials were not to notify the coach how many timeouts he/she had left.
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Walter:
The NFHS Rules Book states:
Rule 2, Section 11, Scorer’s Duties
The scorer shall:
ART. 6 . . . Record the time-out information charged to each team (who and
when) and notify a team and its coach, through an official, whenever that team is granted its final allotted charged time-out.
And the NCAA Rules Book states:
Rule 2, Section 7. Officials’ Duties
During the game, officials shall:
Art. 15. Notify a team and its head coach when a team takes its final
allowable charged timeout.
Rule 2, Section 9. Duties of Scorers
The scorers shall:
Art. 9. Record the timeouts charged to each team and notify an official when
such team takes its final allowable charged timeout.
The situation at the state tournament that you describe is not any different than when the officials fail to awarded an one-and-one bonus free throws because the Scorer did not tell them that the offending team had just committed its seventh team foul of the half. Correctable errors are errors made by the game officials. The officials are supposed to notify the HC when his team has used its last timeout, but that does not mean the team does not get charged with a TF for requesting an excess time-out.
Therefore, one could take the position that officials should NOT inform a team of how many time-outs it has remaining. BUT, the rules state quite clearly that the officials MUST inform the HC when his team has used its final time-out.
MTD, Sr.