Circling court in warm ups

[hugheske44]

I had a guy from our association just call me with a question. He was at a boys varsity contest. While getting captains at center court, the visiting team circles the entire court. The home teams coach comes running out to the captains meeting saying its a technical foul for "intimidation". The ref tells the coach, I was doing the captains meeting, I didnt see them do it. Then the 2 umpires(one of them is the guy that called me) both say they saw it and then decide to give the visiting team a technical foul to start the game.

Now Ive not heard of this except for the Catholic Youth Organization (CYO) rules. It states the home team cannot encircle the visiting team on the court. But again thats the CYO and this was MHSAA, NFHS rules.

So I told the guy I thought they did the wrong thing, now I wanna hear from you guys. I lurk a lot and learn a lot from you guys so thanks in advance!~~~Kelly