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Old Sat Jan 18, 2003, 02:31am
zebraman zebraman is offline
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Originally posted by Hawks Coach
That was news to me. I did not know that - I thought it was both holding and dribbling. So essentially, A1 can hold for 4.9 secs, dribble for 20.1 secs, hold for another 4.9 secs, and release the ball and make contact with the rim before SC expires and we have no violations on this play, even if they are closely guarded the whole time. Just one more reason to scratch my head at NCAA women's rules. Who comes up with this stuff and why?
We have the 30-second shot clock for girls basketball here in Washington State. Yes, there is no 5-second count when a girl is dribbling. With the 30-second clock, it's pretty rare that a girl dribbles more than 5 seconds because they are constantly working for a good shot since time is limited. I officiated a 4A girls varsity tonight and we never had one shot clock violation - I don't think we even ever got under 5 seconds. BTW, a held ball is another shot clock reset.

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