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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.
Chuck
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Hmmm, I had a 1000 word essay all outlined about why I felt your assertion violated the spirit of this rule. Then I consulted the 2002-2004 NFHS handbook (that funky green book that the nice lady from NFHS talked me into buying) looking for ammo to support my position, and the wheels came flying off!
Quoting from page 41: Basket interference may occur during a field goal or free-throw attempt, or when a tapped ball is in flight from a player toward his/her basket,
or whenever the ball is in, on, or directly above the basket, regardless of how it got there....
I've learned my new thing for the day, now I can go to bed
