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Old Sat Jan 26, 2013, 04:02pm
Mark T. DeNucci, Sr. Mark T. DeNucci, Sr. is offline
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Illegal or Identical? That is the question.

Both numbers are legal. They are not identical. In the Ancient Days it was legal to have players wearing both numbers and playing at the same time: "zero" or "double zero". When the first computer programs for basketball statistics were first written, the software could not differentiate between the uniform number "0" and the uniform number "00" therefore the rule change by both the NFHS and NCAA. They are both legal numbers, they are not identical numbers, but a team must just between "0" and "00".

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