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Originally posted by ChuckElias
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Originally posted by Back In The Saddle
Awarding points because of BI for a ball that entered the basket from the bottom seems to violate what I understand to be the spirit of the rule.
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And the NCAA agrees with you. As JR pointed out above (and which I knew all along, but merely forgot to mention  ), the NCAA has an exception to the BI rule so that it is not BI if the ball has entered the basket from below.
However, the FED rules do not include this exception, so in your high school games, call it by the definition.
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Chuck,I can't agree with that either, unfortunately.I think that is bad advice for a high school game,in the unlikely case that it will ever happen. Both the NFHS and NCAA rule books publish appendixes at the back of their respective books,outlining the differences between their rulesets.Neither ruleset states that there is a difference in this particular instance. Why? JMO,but I think that it's because the NFHS never contemplated anyone actually calling BI and awarding points on a ball going up into the basket,instead of down into the basket as normally occurs. I think that both sets of rules legislators intended for it to be called the same way as the NCAA stipulates.It's just not logical to have it otherwise.