White T-shirt under Red jersey

[ilyazhito]

That is not legal attire. Per Rule 1, Section 23, Article 1 of the NCAA Men's basketball rulebook, "An undershirt is considered to be part of the game jersey and must be a color similar to that of the game jersey as defined by the neutral zone." White is not similar to red, so the player cannot play while wearing a white undershirt under a red jersey.

[Nevadaref]

Most NCAA officials do not care about apparel items. Probably a function of how much the individual assignor cares.
Do a search of this forum and you will find a thread from several years ago with an NCAAW player wearing a long-sleeve undershirt during NCAA tournament games. This was not legal attire back then, but the rule has since been changed.

[Camron Rust]

Perhaps the player has an allergy to dyes and has an approved exception from the NCAA. I doubt we'll ever know.

[SC Official]

For what it's worth, in the low-level college games I officiate the assigners expect uniform rules to be enforced.

As I once heard from an assigner, "If I can't trust you to enforce the easy stuff..."

[SC Official]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

Most NCAA officials do not care about apparel items. Probably a function of how much the individual assignor cares.
Do a search of this forum and you will find a thread from several years ago with an NCAAW player wearing a long-sleeve undershirt during NCAA tournament games. This was not legal attire back then, but the rule has since been changed.

Long sleeves still aren't legal in the men's game. And I enforce it in the games I work.

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by SC Official

Long sleeves still aren't legal in the men's game. And I enforce it in the games I work.

Yep. Enforced it my first game of the season. They used to be legal with a note from Art Hyland, but I think that exception is no longer in the rule book.

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

Most NCAA officials do not care about apparel items. Probably a function of how much the individual assignor cares.
....

This is most definitely not true. Crews I work with are constantly correcting apparel and equipment transgressions. We talk about it every pregame. Two seasons ago I worked a D3 game in front of one of the D1 Consortium supervisors and he asked the entire crew after the game why we let one team wear tights that were not the correct color. (the shading was different than the uniforms; I'm color-blind so I didn't notice).