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

[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

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 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.

Billy:

I do not know that answer to your question. What surprised me though is the fact, per the NFHS, that 27 states used a Shot Clock for the 2023-24 school year.

I have been registered: OhioHSAA (since 1971-72), FloridaHSAA (1973-77), CaliforniaIF (1982-84 through the COBA), and MichiganHSAA (1984-2017).

The CIF is the only time I officiated H.S. basketball with a Shot Clock and back then in girls' H.S. games. The CIF used NFHS Rules but had adopted the NAGWS (and then the NCAA Women's) Shot Clock Rules as well as the No Backcourt Violation and No Ten-Second Backcourt Violation Rule.

MTD, Sr.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.

27 states used a Shot Clock for the 2023-24 school year.

From many sources, some obviously more reliable than others, here's what I've researched and come up with:

Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Illinois (26-27), Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Washington, and Wisconsin.

I probably have about eight too many states on my list.

Maybe a few of those eight states only use shot clocks for special tournaments?

What states should be deleted from my list?

[FlasherZ]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Maybe a few of those eight states only use shot clocks for special tournaments?

What states should be deleted from my list?

Illinois did not use them for normal, regular-season play or state series. There are some tournaments and shootouts that have used them, authorized starting 2022-23. Illinois expects to adopt for all games in 2026-27.