2024-25 NFHS Bkb: Rules and Editorial Changes and POEs

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.

9-10-1a NOTE (NEW), 4-10: Allows state associations to adopt a modification to the closely guarded rule if they have adopted the 35-second shot clock, allowing players to dribble the ball for more than five seconds while closely guarded and maintain that a player may not hold the ball for five or more seconds.

Have any state associations now decided to modify to the closely guarded rule with the 35-second shot clock, allowing players to dribble the ball for more than five seconds while closely guarded?

Have any state associations made the decision not (maintaining the status quo) to modify the closely guarded rule?

Have any state associations already made the closely guarded change in the past, or distant past (you rebels) before getting "permission" from the NFHS?

I have not heard anything about Connecticut. We did not make the closely guarded change last year with our new shot clocks.